Re: Update: Porting to Modern C

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 08:58:12AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I'm still in the process of setting thigs up.  I've created a wiki page
> separately from the change proposal that documents some project
> procedures:
> 
>   <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Toolchain/PortingToModernC>
> 
> It has some instructions how to test things locally.  Thanks to Kevin's
> help, we should soon have a special buildroot in Koji which will be
> useful for testing as well.
> 
> The first pass will focus on implicit ints and implicit function
> declarations, simply because we have to start somewhere, and I've got an
> instrumented GCC for this.
> 
> Below, I'm listing packages which use implicit ints and call an
> undeclared “exit” function.  Detection is therefore extremely reliable.
> (In general, implicit function declarations are hard to detect because
> sometimes there are calls to functions from configure checks which are
> expected to be missing in Fedora, such as “getmntinfo”.  No such problem
> with “exit” or implicit ints, though.)  In the list, I have excluded
> issues that have already been fixed in rawhide, or for which I have
> filed help-needed Bugzilla bugs (I hope I haven't missed anything).
> 
> I'll try to capture the work we do in a tracking repository, so that
> other distributions can find it:
> 
>   <https://gitlab.com/fweimer-rh/fedora-modernc>
> 
> If you find something, please submit an MR to this repository.  (If we
> can make this repository or another one editable by Fedora packages,
> that would be fine, too.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian

Quite hard to scan this list without having maintainer names, but
I would just comment that:

> mingw-gcc

... this is just GCC with different compilation options, and hopefully
GCC maintainers know about this :-)  GCC 12.2.1 at time of writing.

Rich.

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