Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] mk: use misleading indentation warning when available

["Gaëtan Rivet" <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2018 at 02:50:30PM +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> On 12/18/2018 10:26 AM, Gaetan Rivet wrote:
> > -Wmisleading-indentation was introduced in GCC 6.0.
> 
> It seems '-Wmisleading-indentation' is part of -Wall, which we already set by
> default. If so no need to explicitly add it.
> 
> The link I found:
> https://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc-6/porting_to.html
> 
> copy-paste:
> "
> A new warning -Wmisleading-indentation was added to -Wall, warning about places
> where the indentation of the code might mislead a human reader about the control
> flow:
> "
> 
> Is there a way to confirm it is part of -Wall?
> 

I think you are right, actually the check was already used.
This is worrying, given that the original bug was not seen.

This patch can be left out then, but the problem remains. Maybe an
update to coding style is needed, or an evolution to checkpatch //
preferably something else.

> > 
> > Use it at least when available. This should catch most common
> > error of the types (due to the codebase being properly tabbed),
> > but will still miss patterns such as
> > 
> >     if (!condition)
> >     	// commented_fn_call();
> >     do_stuff();
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <gaetan.rivet@6wind.com>
> > ---
> > 
> > I completely agree that we should change the coding style and force
> > all if()s to have brackets.
> > 
> > In the meantime, this patch might help alleviate the issue.
> > 
> >  mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk b/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk
> > index d8b99faf6..2c9bde1d5 100644
> > --- a/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk
> > +++ b/mk/toolchain/gcc/rte.vars.mk
> > @@ -87,5 +87,9 @@ WERROR_FLAGS += -Wimplicit-fallthrough=2
> >  WERROR_FLAGS += -Wno-format-truncation
> >  endif
> >  
> > +ifeq ($(shell test $(GCC_VERSION) -gt 60 && echo 1), 1)
> > +WERROR_FLAGS += -Wmisleading-indentation
> > +endif
> > +
> >  export CC AS AR LD OBJCOPY OBJDUMP STRIP READELF
> >  export TOOLCHAIN_CFLAGS TOOLCHAIN_LDFLAGS TOOLCHAIN_ASFLAGS
> > 
> 

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Gaëtan Rivet
6WIND