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Re: [PATCH] hurd: Add shared mig declarations


From: Simon Marchi
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hurd: Add shared mig declarations
Date: Sun, 31 May 2020 22:05:45 -0400
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On 2020-05-31 3:20 a.m., Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Simon Marchi, le sam. 30 mai 2020 21:51:35 -0400, a ecrit:
>> On 2020-05-30 2:23 p.m., Samuel Thibault wrote:
>>> Fixes
>>>
>>> exc_request_S.c:177:24: error: no previous declaration for ‘exc_server’ 
>>> [-Werror=missing-declarations]
>>>   177 | mig_external boolean_t exc_server
>>>
>>> gdb/ChangeLog:
>>>
>>>     * config/i386/i386gnu.mn [%_S.o %_U.o] (COMPILE.post): Add
>>>     "-include gnu-nat-mig.h".
>>>     * gnu-nat-mig.h: New file.
>>>     * gnu-nat.c: Include "gnu-nat-mig.h".
>>>     (exc_server, msg_reply_server, notify_server,
>>>     process_reply_server): Remove declarations.
>>
>> It took me a while to understand the underlying problem.  My understanding 
>> is that
>> gnu-nat.c calls this function exc_server, that is defined in the generated 
>> file.  The
>> generated file does not provide a header with declarations, so gnu-nat.c had 
>> its own
>> local declaration.  Since we now use the -Wmissing-declarations warning 
>> flag, and the
>> definition in the generated exc_request_S.c didn't see a corresponding 
>> declaration,
>> it caused that build failure.  Is that correct?  If so, please add that 
>> explanation
>> or equivalent to the commit log.
> 
> I have now added
> 
>
> We are using -Werror=missing-declarations, and the _S.h files generated
> by mig do not currently include a declaration for the server routine.
> gnu-nat.c used to have its own external declarations, but better just
> share them between gnu-nat.c and the _S.c files.
>

Thanks, that sounds good.  And this way, I suppose that if for some reason the 
prototypes
don't match, we'll get a compilation error (which is a good thing).

>> My question now is: that MIG tool appears to generate both a header (%_S.h) 
>> and source
>> file (%_S.c) from defs files.  What is this header file used for, if it 
>> doesn't contain
>> the declaration for the functions in the source file?
> 
> Mig does include declarations for the functions of the .c files, but
> not for the server routine, I don't know why that was never implemented
> there (this hasn't been touched since the VCS initial import).

Ok.

Simon




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