[PATCH v3 2/2] MSVC: Fix an "incompatible pointer types" compiler warning
From: Ramsay Jones <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:47:53
Subsystem:
the rest · Maintainer:
Linus Torvalds
In particular, the following warning is issued while compiling
compat/msvc.c:
...mingw.c(223) : warning C4133: 'function' : incompatible \
types - from '_stati64 *' to '_stat64 *'
which relates to a call of _fstati64() in the mingw_fstat()
function definition.
This is caused by various layers of macro magic and attempts to
avoid macro redefinition compiler warnings. For example, the call
to _fstati64() mentioned above is actually a call to _fstat64(),
and expects a pointer to a struct _stat64 rather than the struct
_stati64 which is passed to mingw_fstat().
The definition of struct _stati64 given in compat/msvc.h had the
same "shape" as the definition of struct _stat64, so the call to
_fstat64() does not actually cause any runtime errors, but the
structure types are indeed incompatible.
In order to avoid the compiler warning, we add declarations for the
mingw_lstat() and mingw_fstat() functions and supporting macros to
msvc.h, suppressing the corresponding declarations in mingw.h, so
that we can use the appropriate structure type (and function) names
from the msvc headers.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <redacted>
---
Changes from v2:
- removed the #if conditionals and related code depending on
the _USE_32BIT_TIME_T macro being defined.
- re-worded the commit message to reflect the above.
We assume that git will never be compiled with -D_USE_32BIT_TIME_T,
otherwise this patch will introduce a breakage that the current code
does not suffer.
[Hmm, should the above paragraph (or one like it) be added to the
commit message?]
Note that, if we wish to support 64-bit Windows, we would not be able
to use this macro anyway (it elicits an #error message on WIN64).
(ie. a time_t can only be 64-bits on WIN64)
ATB,
Ramsay Jones
compat/mingw.h | 4 +++-
compat/msvc.h | 40 ++++++++++++++++------------------------
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
diff --git a/compat/mingw.h b/compat/mingw.h
index b3d299f..55fd7fa 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.h
+++ b/compat/mingw.h@@ -209,13 +209,15 @@ int mingw_getpagesize(void); * mingw_fstat() instead of fstat() on Windows. */ #define off_t off64_t -#define stat _stati64 #define lseek _lseeki64 +#ifndef ALREADY_DECLARED_STAT_FUNCS +#define stat _stati64 int mingw_lstat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf); int mingw_fstat(int fd, struct stat *buf); #define fstat mingw_fstat #define lstat mingw_lstat #define _stati64(x,y) mingw_lstat(x,y) +#endif int mingw_utime(const char *file_name, const struct utimbuf *times); #define utime mingw_utime
diff --git a/compat/msvc.h b/compat/msvc.h
index 9c753a5..023aba0 100644
--- a/compat/msvc.h
+++ b/compat/msvc.h@@ -21,30 +21,22 @@ static __inline int strcasecmp (const char *s1, const char *s2) } #undef ERROR -#undef stat -#undef _stati64 -#include "compat/mingw.h" -#undef stat -#define stat _stati64 + +/* Use mingw_lstat() instead of lstat()/stat() and mingw_fstat() instead + * of fstat(). We add the declaration of these functions here, suppressing + * the corresponding declarations in mingw.h, so that we can use the + * appropriate structure type (and function) names from the msvc headers. + */ +#define stat _stat64 +int mingw_lstat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf); +int mingw_fstat(int fd, struct stat *buf); +#define fstat mingw_fstat +#define lstat mingw_lstat #define _stat64(x,y) mingw_lstat(x,y) +#define ALREADY_DECLARED_STAT_FUNCS + +#include "compat/mingw.h" + +#undef ALREADY_DECLARED_STAT_FUNCS -/* - Even though _stati64 is normally just defined at _stat64 - on Windows, we specify it here as a proper struct to avoid - compiler warnings about macro redefinition due to magic in - mingw.h. Struct taken from ReactOS (GNU GPL license). -*/ -struct _stati64 { - _dev_t st_dev; - _ino_t st_ino; - unsigned short st_mode; - short st_nlink; - short st_uid; - short st_gid; - _dev_t st_rdev; - __int64 st_size; - time_t st_atime; - time_t st_mtime; - time_t st_ctime; -}; #endif
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