Re: [PATCHv2 27/27] build: add syntax check for proper flags use

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On 07/08/2011 01:26 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> Enforce the recent flags cleanups - we want to use 'unsigned int flags'
> in any of our APIs (except where backwards compatibility is important,
> in the public migration APIs), and that all flags are checked for
> validity (except when there are stub functions that completely
> ignore the flags argument).
> 
> There are a few minor tweaks done here to avoid false positives:
> signed arguments passed to open() are renamed oflags, and flags
> arguments that are legitimately ignored are renamed flags_unused.
> 
> * cfg.mk (sc_flags_usage): New rule.
> (exclude_file_name_regexp--sc_flags_usage): And a few exemptions.

> +sc_flags_usage:
> +	@test "$$(grep -c 'long flags'					\
> +	  $(srcdir)/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in)" != 4 &&		\
> +	  { echo '$(ME): new API should use "unsigned int flags"' 1>&2;	\
> +	    exit 1; } || :

As mentioned in 4/27, this doesn't cover all public APIs.  I'm thinking
of squashing this in (I'll post a full v2 once I actually rebase it on
top of all ACK'd posts, but will start the review now):

diff --git i/cfg.mk w/cfg.mk
index 4ab5752..2e177ff 100644
--- i/cfg.mk
+++ w/cfg.mk
@@ -280,14 +280,17 @@ sc_flags_debug:

 # Prefer 'unsigned int flags', along with checks for unknown flags.
 # For historical reasons, we are stuck with 'unsigned long flags' in
-# migration and in a few other places.
-# Three tests in this check: a fixed number of non-int flags in public
-# API, no flags marked unused, and 'unsigned' should appear before any
-# declaration of a flags variable (hence the prohibit line of [^d]).
-# The existence of long long makes the third test slightly harder.
+# migration, so check for those known 4 instances and no more in public
+# API.  Also check that no flags are marked unused, and 'unsigned' should
+# appear before any declaration of a flags variable (acheived by
+# prohibiting the word prior to the type from ending in anything other
+# than d).  The existence of long long, and of documentation about
+# flags, makes the regex in the third test slightly harder.
 sc_flags_usage:
-	@test "$$(grep -c 'long flags'					\
-	  $(srcdir)/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in)" != 4 &&		\
+	@test "$$(cat $(srcdir)/include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in		\
+	    $(srcdir)/include/libvirt/virterror.h			\
+	    $(srcdir)/include/libvirt/libvirt-qemu.h			\
+	  | grep -c '\(long\|unsigned\) flags')" != 4 &&		\
 	  { echo '$(ME): new API should use "unsigned int flags"' 1>&2;	\
 	    exit 1; } || :
 	@prohibit=' flags ''ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED'				\


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