On Thu, Dec 20 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > When building Git with GCC 8.2.0 (at least from Homebrew on macOS, > DEVELOPER flags enabled) one is greeted with a screenful of compiler > errors: > > compat/obstack.c: In function '_obstack_begin': > compat/obstack.c:162:17: error: cast between incompatible function types from 'void * (*)(long int)' to 'struct _obstack_chunk * (*)(void *, long int)' [-Werror=cast-function-type] > h->chunkfun = (struct _obstack_chunk * (*)(void *, long)) chunkfun; > ^ > compat/obstack.c:163:16: error: cast between incompatible function types from 'void (*)(void *)' to 'void (*)(void *, struct _obstack_chunk *)' [-Werror=cast-function-type] > h->freefun = (void (*) (void *, struct _obstack_chunk *)) freefun; > ^ > compat/obstack.c:116:8: error: cast between incompatible function types from 'struct _obstack_chunk * (*)(void *, long int)' to 'struct _obstack_chunk * (*)(long int)' [-Werror=cast-function-type] > : (*(struct _obstack_chunk *(*) (long)) (h)->chunkfun) ((size))) > ^ > compat/obstack.c:168:22: note: in expansion of macro 'CALL_CHUNKFUN' > chunk = h->chunk = CALL_CHUNKFUN (h, h -> chunk_size); > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~ > <snip> We originally got this from now-discontinued eglibc, but I notice that glibc.git's malloc/obstack.[ch]'s diff also changes these lines. If you backport those do does that fix this warning? I.e. is this another case where we're blindly fixing bugs but should just re-import upstream's code instead?
