One group of warnings seen building glibc with -Wextra is -Wempty-body
warnings about an 'if' body (or in one case an 'else' body) that is
just a semicolon, "warning: suggest braces around empty body in an
'if' statement [-Wempty-body]" - I think the point of the warning
being to make it more visible whether an 'if' body is actually present
or not.
This patch fixes such warnings in glibc. There's one place, with a
semicolon at the end of a comment, where this is clearly making the
presence of an 'else' body more visible. The other cases involve
macro definitions expanding to nothing. While there's no issue there
with visibility at the call sites, I think it's still cleaner to have
a macro that expands to something nonempty appropriate for the context
- so do {} while (0) if it's only intended to be usable as a
statement, or ((void) 0) where the macro definition is an alternative
to a call to a function returning void, so this patch makes those
changes.
Tested for x86_64.
* catgets/gencat.c (normalize_line): Use braces around empty
'else' body.
* include/stap-probe.h [!USE_STAP_PROBE && !__ASSEMBLER__]
(STAP_PROBE0): Use do {} while (0) for do-nothing definition.
[!USE_STAP_PROBE && !__ASSEMBLER__] (STAP_PROBE1): Likewise.
[!USE_STAP_PROBE && !__ASSEMBLER__] (STAP_PROBE2): Likewise.
[!USE_STAP_PROBE && !__ASSEMBLER__] (STAP_PROBE3): Likewise.
[!USE_STAP_PROBE && !__ASSEMBLER__] (STAP_PROBE4): Likewise.
* libio/libio.h (_IO_funlockfile): Use ((void) 0) for do-nothing
definition.
With the default "nor" constraint, current GCC will use the "o"
constraint for constants, after emitting the constant to memory. That
results in unparseable Systemtap probe notes such as "-4@.L1052".
Removing the "o" alternative and using "nr" instead avoids this.
Replace with IS_IN and IS_IN_LIB macros instead. This change results
in a change in generated code, because it fixes a subtle bug. The bug
was introduced when systemtap probes were added to lowlevellock.h,
which resulted in stap-probe.h being included in a number of places.
stap-probe.h always defines IN_LIB, which breaks a check in errno.h
and netdb.h since they rely on that macro to decide whether to
implement an internal version of a declaration or an external one.
The components that see a code change due to this are:
iconv_prog
libmemusage.so
libpcprofile.so
libSegFault.so
libutil.so.1
locale
localedef
nscd
All other built components (i.e. libc, libpthread, etc.) remain
unchanged by this on x86_64.
* elf/Makefile (CPPFLAGS-.os): Remove IN_LIB.
* elf/rtld-Rules (rtld-CPPFLAGS): Likewise.
* extra-lib.mk (CPPFLAGS-$(lib)): Likewise.
* include/libc-symbols.h (IS_IN_LIB): New macro.
* include/errno.h: Use IS_IN_LIB instead of IN_LIB.
* include/netdb.h: Likewise.
* include/stap-probe.h: Remove all uses of IN_LIB.
Define MODULE_NAME in the build command and define IN_MODULE using
MODULE_NAME. Verified that the generated code is unchanged on x86_64.
* Makeconfig (module-cppflags-real): Define MODULE_NAME
instead of IN_MODULE.
* include/libc-symbols.h (IN_MODULE): Define using
MODULE_NAME.
(PASTE_NAME, PASTE_NAME1): New macros.
* include/stap-probe.h (LIBC_PROBE_1): Use MODULE_NAME instead
of IN_LIB.
(STAP_PROBE_ASM): Likewise.
Add a comment pointing to the SystemTap wiki page that documents the
format of the arguments. Also add a pointer to the SystemTap and
gdb sources which seem to be the best place to get the architecture
specific details.
ChangeLog:
2014-02-11 Will Newton <will.newton@linaro.org>
* include/stap-probe.h: Add comment about probe argument
format.
Joseph pointed out in the bug report (and in an earlier thread) that
systemtap probes cause build time warnings like the following:
../sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_atan2.c:602:4: warning: the address of
'p' will always evaluate as 'true' [-Waddress]
due to the fact that we're now passing non-weak variables to
LIBC_PROBE in the libm probes. This happens only on configurations
that do not enable systemtap. The macro definition of LIBC_PROBE in
this case only acts as a sanity checker to ensure that the number
parameters passed to LIBC_PROBE is equal to the argument count
parameter passed before it. This can be done in a much simpler manner
by just adding a macro definition for each number of arguments. I am
assuming here that we don't really want to bother with supporting
LIBC_PROBE with an indeterminate number of arguments and if there is a
need for a probe to have more data than what is currently supported (4
arguments), one could simply add an additional macro here.
