John Smith writes:
Ive just downloaded and compiled openldap-2.4.10, but when I add the CFLAGS '-Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-qual -W' I get the following warnings that may require further investigation of an developer :
We should get around to clean away more warnings, but most are OK.
- cast discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Usually that's what the cast is for.
- missing initializer
Typically null-filled structs. E.g. initial value of a fake Operation struct, or the final element of a "null struct"-terminated array.
Still, we can #define null initializers for them. A bit messy with structs that have #ifdeffed members, but the #ifdef can #define the part of the initializer for that part of the struct.
- signed and unsigned type in conditional expression
- comparison between signed and unsigned
- comparison of unsigned expression >= 0 is always true
- comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false
Yes, we should probably have a look at these. ... I don't like the WHATSLEFT compares in limits.c.
Some are fine, for datatypes which can or could be signed on some hosts but are unsigned on others. Or types which once were signed on some hosts - I think size_t was signed somewhere (Sun?) when ANSI C was new. Maybe it's about time to trust size_t to be unsigned...
It's very easy to make mistakes with signedness though, so any changes have to be done carefully.
- declaration of 'foo' shadows a previous local
Should clean up, but it's a typical "argh, I don't want this job" issue, at least for big functions.
After all, the point of a warning is to catch potential errors, so I think the right way to silence those is to strongly suspect there _is_ an error and try to find it. Which means studying each function carefully, and most likely not find anything. Otherwise renaming one of the variables will just make any errors harder to find and understand.
- `foo' is deprecated; use `foobar' or `foo_r' instead
Yes, sys_nerr/sys_errlist. The strerror code needs to be cleaned up. We'll get around to it - someday:-(