Re: [PATCH 0/5] xfstests: eliminate build warnings in the "dmapi" subtree

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On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 13:37 -0600, Alex Elder wrote:
> Now that we're building the "dmapi" subtree the same way as the rest
> of the code in "xfstests", a lot of warnings are showing up in the
> build.  This series eliminates them all, at least for three build
> architectures I have used so far (i386, x86_64, and ia64).
> 
> Because of the sheer number of changes, I've broken it into
> a small series, each focused on files under a certain portion
> of the tree under "dmapi".
> 
> Below are the types of warnings, and how they were generally fixed.
> In all cases I scanned the affected code to be reasonably sure the
> warning was harmless and the fix did not obscure a real problem.
> - Variables possibly used before set.  Fixed by initializing such
>   variables to 0 or NULL, or some appropriate symbolic value if
>   available.
> - "Bald" assignments used as conditional values; GCC suggests adding
>   an extra set of parentheses.  Fixed by pulling the assignments out
>   as a previous line of code, and using the assigned value alone in
>   the conditional.
> - Variables used in scanf() functions having types that differ from
>   what the format string indicates.  Fixed by creating and using new
>   variables of the type needed for scanf(), and then assigning the
>   result to the original variable with a cast.
> - Variables used in printf() functions having types that differ from
>   what the format string indicates.  Fixed by casting the variable
>   to the type indicated in the format string.  In a few cases I
>   changed "%lld" formats to "%llu" to be consistent with other usage
>   for printing the same variable.  (But I did not do this
>   consistently.)
>     - A lot of these cases involved using "%zd" in place of just
>       "%d" for printing size_t objects.
> - In one case, replaced a call to tmpnam() with an equivalent call
>   to mkstmp() using a local variable.
> 
> Patch 1 covers files under:
>     dmapi/src/common/cmd/
>     dmapi/src/common/lib/
>     dmapi/src/sample_hsm/
>     dmapi/src/simple/
> 
> Patch 2 covers:
>     dmapi/src/suite1/cmd/ (part 1)
> 
> Patch 3 covers:
>     dmapi/src/suite1/cmd/ (part 2)
> 
> Patch 4 covers:
>     dmapi/src/suite1/cmd/ (part 3)
> 
> Patch 5 covers:
>     dmapi/src/suite2/
> 
> 					-Alex



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