Re: [PATCH 0/7] pull: make smatch scan output easy to digest

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On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:12:06PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> On 20 February 2017 at 12:14, Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Merged, but except:
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:06:34PM +0000, Sami Kerola wrote:
> >>   misc: unify function declarations [smatch scan]
> >
> > I agree that some unification would be nice, but don't like
> >
> >    static __attribute__((__noreturn__)) __attribute__((__format__(printf, 1, 2)))
> >           void log_err(const char *fmt, ...);
> >
> > it would be better to keep all the attributes after declaration:
> >
> >    static void log_err(const char *fmt, ...)
> >                     __attribute__((__noreturn__))
> >                     __attribute__((__format__(printf, 1, 2)));
> >
> > it means new line for each attribute. IMHO it's more readable and you
> > don't have to search for the function name, etc.
> 
> Hi Karel,
> 
> That's fair enough, and truth is the patch did not fix many warnings so
> I am sure we can live with them.
> 
> What comes to moving attributes at end of the declaration that does
> not please smatch.
> 
> lib/exec_shell.c:33:1: error: attributes should be specified before
> the declarator in a function definition
>  void exec_shell(void)

Report it as smatch bug. It's pretty common that function attributes
are defined after declaration. CC: Dan.

    Karel

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