Bug 89433

Summary: GCC 4.2 does not support -Wvla
Product: Mesa Reporter: Vinson Lee <vlee>
Component: Mesa coreAssignee: mesa-dev
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: mesa-dev
Severity: blocker    
Priority: medium CC: jfonseca, jsg
Version: gitKeywords: regression
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: make -Wvla conditional
check if compiler supports -Werror=vla

Description Vinson Lee 2015-03-04 23:36:57 UTC
mesa: b5eb6f769db71557c86c72c3352db149379fdade (master 10.6.0-devel)

-Wvla is available with gcc >= 4.3.

Build fails with this error.

cc1: error: -Werror=vla: No option -Wvla
Comment 1 Jonathan Gray 2015-03-05 02:39:27 UTC
Created attachment 114016 [details] [review]
make -Wvla conditional

How about the attached patch to make it conditional on the GCC version?
Comment 2 Jose Fonseca 2015-03-05 11:52:10 UTC
(In reply to Jonathan Gray from comment #1)
> Created attachment 114016 [details] [review] [review]
> make -Wvla conditional
> 
> How about the attached patch to make it conditional on the GCC version?

Thanks for looking into this. 

I worry that checking the compiler version might not work for clang. It might be better to mimic the logic we use above for -Werror=implicit-function-declaration and -Werror=missing-prototypes.
Comment 3 Jonathan Gray 2015-03-17 02:26:51 UTC
Created attachment 114359 [details] [review]
check if compiler supports -Werror=vla

new patch that does a compile check for the flag
Comment 4 Jose Fonseca 2015-03-17 20:33:43 UTC
(In reply to Jonathan Gray from comment #3)
> Created attachment 114359 [details] [review] [review]
> check if compiler supports -Werror=vla
> 
> new patch that does a compile check for the flag

configure.ac is basically m4 on top of shell/bash, right?

If so the check must be done  MSVC2013_COMPAT_* vars are referred in the MSVC2008_COMPAT_* assignment.

Otherwise looks good.
Comment 5 Jose Fonseca 2015-03-17 20:34:51 UTC
"... check must be done _before_ MSVC2013_COMPAT_* ..."
Comment 6 Jose Fonseca 2015-03-18 10:55:54 UTC
I've updated and pushed your fix (8475526a3842580f00a043bca8f821e14e9f5eb7)

Thanks.

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