Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Error out on implicit declarations

[Myles Watson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:52 AM
> To: [e-mail]
> Cc: Myles Watson; Coreboot
> Subject: Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Error out on implicit declarations
>
> On 18.12.2008 15:52, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > Myles Watson wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
> > > [e-mail]> wrote:
> > > > Bao, Zheng found a bug which killed SATA booting on my board.
> > > >
> > > > This happened because we do not error out on implicit function
> > > > declarations. The linker has no way of checking whether the implicitly
> > > > assumed function signature is identical to the real signature, so
> > > > mismatches can occur and these mismatches are practically impossible
>
> to
> > > > debug because the code looks completely correct.
> > > >
> > > > Adding -Werror-implicit-function-declaration to our CFLAGS would solve
> > > > this problem nicely, but a lot of files in the tree need to be fixed.
>
> Fix implicit udelay src/southbridge/nvidia/mcp55/mcp55_aza.c
> Fix imlicit mdelay in src/southbridge/nvidia/mcp55/mcp55_nic.c
>
> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
>
> abuild tested on all MCP55 targets.

Acked-by: Myles Watson

Thanks,
Myles