Re: [PATCH] meson.build: Remove the -Wvla-larger-then flag

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On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:00:59PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:49:28PM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:37:36PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The flag has a typo in it, it's "...-than=..." and not "...-then=...",
> so this was in fact never used. Since we're also using -Wvla (without
> size), we should already get warnings about any variable length arrays
> anyway, so the additional "-Wvla-larger-than" does not make much sense
> and thus we can simply drop this.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> meson.build | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>

This makes sense to me and I could not find any possible typo alias
anywhere (like we have in virsh, for example).  The only thing I am
unsure about is whether we want to actually use the proper naming.  The
reason is that by default this is set to vla-larger-than=PTRDIFF_MAX
which is pretty huge number.  On the other hand the man page for GCC
says it is only effective with -ftree-vrp (-02 and above).

The -Wvla-larger-than=PTRDIFF_MAX default is irrelevant though,
because we've blocked all use of VLAs by using -Wvla.

IOW, AFAICT, -Wvla-larger-than and -Wvla are mutually exclusive
from a conceptual POV.


Thank I misunderstood and this patch makes complete sense, sorry for the
noise and thanks for the correction.


I do not see whether using the predefined alloc_max would make sense or
not.  So I am not against just removing it, but feel free to overrule me
as I did not look into this as much as others will be capable of.

Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan@xxxxxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
> index 4f23f9104e..40c841e777 100644
> --- a/meson.build
> +++ b/meson.build
> @@ -390,7 +390,6 @@ cc_flags += [
>   '-Wvariadic-macros',
>   '-Wvector-operation-performance',
>   '-Wvla',
> -  '-Wvla-larger-then=4031',
>   '-Wvolatile-register-var',
>   '-Wwrite-strings',
> ]
> --
> 2.27.0
>



Regards,
Daniel
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