Re: [PATCH rdma-core] verbs: Fix warning from gcc-8

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On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 04:04:45PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 10:42:45AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 07:38:34AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 01:57:04PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 10:09:05PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:20:12AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > > > > gcc-8 now warns on the void (*)(void) cast, use the less pedantically
> > > > > > correct (void *) cast instead.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ../libibverbs/dummy_ops.c:526:28: warning: cast between incompatible function types from ‘struct ibv_pd * (* const)(struct ibv_context *)’ to ‘void * (*)(void)’ [-Wcast-function-type]
> > > > > >     (ptr)->_compat_##name = (void *(*)(void))ops->name;    \
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > >  libibverbs/dummy_ops.c | 2 +-
> > > > > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > I don't see such warning on my systems,
> > > > > ➜  patches gcc --version
> > > > > gcc (GCC) 8.1.1 20180502 (Red Hat 8.1.1-1)
> > > > >
> > > > > What should I enable to see it?
> > > >
> > > > No idea, maybe they reverted the warning or RH turned it off or ??
> > >
> > > It looks so,
> > > ➜  gcc -Q --help=warning | grep "Wcast-function-type"
> > >   -Wcast-function-type                  [disabled]
> > >
> > > >
> > > > I see it here:
> > > >
> > > > gcc version 8.1.0 (Ubuntu 8.1.0-5ubuntu1~16.04)
> > > >
> > > > As does travis when building the suse package
> > >
> > > You need to add this warning to CmakeList.txt
> > > https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/blob/master/CMakeLists.txt#L165
> >
> > Maybe we should just disable it from CMake, if the thinking is that
> > this is not a good warning to use..
>
> I think that this warning is valuable for us, because it catches wrong
> usage of declared function signatures and we don't have much places
> like this, so it is easy to fix instead of hide.

Added CmakeList line,
https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/pull/364

Thanks

>
> Thanks
>
> >
> > Jason
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