Myles Watson wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger < c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> 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.
I think this is a great idea. Isn't the correct order to fix all the warnings, then make it an error?
Yeah - the unfortunate thing about changes like this is that you end up being responsible for fixing the errors.. :)
Carl-Daniel - if you post a list of offending files, we'll all help clear them up. Dumping the log through grep "implicit declaration of function" should suffice.
Jordan