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Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 11:40:51 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Core: build warning

On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 10:53:57AM +0400, Alexander Cherepanov wrote:
> While you are at it you could also think about fixing undefined behavior
> for atoi:
> 
>   http://openwall.com/lists/john-dev/2013/04/23/5

I think this issue does not affect the core tree.

> >>trip_fmt.c: In function ?cmp_exact?:
> >>trip_fmt.c:520: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
> >
> >I think these are spurious (gcc bug?),
> 
> Sorry, forgot to describe the cause for these warnings. After checking 
> the result of preprocessing it becomes clear that the problem is in 
> extra semicolon in "MAYBE_T0;". It leads to an empty statement after 
> macro substitution.

Oh, this makes everything clear indeed.  Thank you!

> >compiler.c provides fallback code for non-gcc, with no dependency on
> >computed gotos.  It runs 2-3 times slower, though.
> 
> Thanks, I see it now.
> 
> Except for this file everything now compiles cleanly with the following 
> options:
> 
> gcc -c -std=c89 -pedantic -Wall -Wextra -Wno-missing-field-initializers 
> -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-overlength-strings

You may add -U__GNUC__ to force compilation of non-gcc versions of the
code, where those are available.  I've been using this approach for
testing (years ago).

Alexander

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