Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> On 2013-04-27 20.42, Ramsay Jones wrote:
>>
>> On MinGW, sparse issues an "'get_st_mode_bits' not declared. Should
>> it be static?" warning. The MinGW and MSVC builds do not see the
>> declaration of this function, within git-compat-util.h, due to it's
>> placement within an preprocessor conditional. (So, one solution would
>> be to simply move the declaration to the top level of the header.)
>>
>> In order to suppress the warning, since this symbol does not need
>> more than file visibility, we simply remove the declaration from
>> the header and add the static modifier to the function definition.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> git-compat-util.h | 1 -
>> path.c | 2 +-
>> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
>> index e955bb5..3a990b3 100644
>> --- a/git-compat-util.h
>> +++ b/git-compat-util.h
>> @@ -163,7 +163,6 @@
>> typedef long intptr_t;
>> typedef unsigned long uintptr_t;
>> #endif
>> -int get_st_mode_bits(const char *path, int *mode);
>> #if defined(__CYGWIN__)
>> #undef _XOPEN_SOURCE
>> #include <grp.h>
>> diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
>> index 04ff148..cc2e9ac 100644
>> --- a/path.c
>> +++ b/path.c
>> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
>> * may return wrong permission bits. Most of the time we do not care,
>> * but the callsites of this wrapper do care.
>> */
>> -int get_st_mode_bits(const char *path, int *mode)
>> +static int get_st_mode_bits(const char *path, int *mode)
>> {
>> struct stat st;
>> if (lstat(path, &st) < 0)
>>
> Sorry for breaking the MiNGW/MSVC builds.
> It seams that the get_st_mode_bits is badly placed.
You didn't break the build; simply provoked a warning.
As I said in the commit message, an alternative is to
simply move the declaration to the top level of the
header (out of the preprocessor conditional).
ATB,
Ramsay Jones
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