From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga14.intel.com (mga14.intel.com [192.55.52.115]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A66C6378E for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:26:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by fmsmga103.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Sep 2016 08:26:08 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.30,362,1470726000"; d="scan'208";a="170596950" Received: from bricha3-mobl3.ger.corp.intel.com ([10.237.220.73]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with SMTP; 19 Sep 2016 08:26:06 -0700 Received: by (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:26:05 +0025 Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 16:26:05 +0100 From: Bruce Richardson To: dev@dpdk.org Message-ID: <20160919152605.GG45548@bricha3-MOBL3> References: <1474295814-4879-1-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <20160919145959.GB17252@6wind.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20160919145959.GB17252@6wind.com> Organization: Intel Research and =?iso-8859-1?Q?De=ACvel?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?opment?= Ireland Ltd. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx: fix compile errors with ignore pedantic pragma X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 15:26:09 -0000 On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 04:59:59PM +0200, Adrien Mazarguil wrote: > Hi Bruce, > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 03:36:54PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote: > > With recent gcc versions, e.g. gcc 6.1, compilation of mlx drivers with > > debug enabled produces lots of errors complaining that "pedantic" is > > not a warning level that can be ignored. > > > > error: ‘-pedantic’ is not an option that controls warnings [-Werror=pragmas] > > #pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-pedantic" > > ^~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > These errors can be removed by changing the "-pedantic" to "-Wpedantic". > > Nice to have a workaround, I thought they did not keep the option at all. > However after testing: > > - It does not seem to work with GCC 4.6 and older, they prefer -pedantic: > "warning: unknown option after `#pragma GCC diagnostic' kind". > > - GCC 4.9 (possibly 5.x as well) does not care, can use either -pedantic or > -Wpedantic. > > - GCC 6 can only supports -Wpedantic. > > Note we're working toward removing the need for these #pragma in the first > place as soon as possible, however in the meantime I fear that checking the > GCC version is necessary. > Depends on how old of GCC version we need to support. From the release notes it appears that -Wpedantic was introduced in GCC 4.8 (3 1/2 years ago). https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/changes.html Do we need to support compilation on gcc versions older than this? Regards, /Bruce