[Gluster-devel] C99 requirement in Gluster ?

Michael Scherer mscherer at redhat.com
Sun Feb 19 10:57:02 UTC 2017


Hi,

so I was reading coverty scan reports (as Nigel tricked me into looking
them), and one of the first is this:
https://download.gluster.org/pub/gluster/glusterfs/static-analysis/master/glusterfs-coverity/2017-02-07-3c86d946/html/1/8rpc-transport.c.html#error

at first, i was wondering why/what is the issue.

But, after searching, int8_t is a C99 type, which is signed when
compiled on C99 compiler, and likely unsigned when compiled using a non
C99 compiler (as I see in ./contrib/argp-standalone/acinclude.m4 , it
will be defined to "char" on non c99 platform, which also make no
garantee on being signed or unsigned, according to
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4337217/difference-between-signed-unsigned-char ).

So, to fix that, should we force to use c99, or update argp-standalone ?

(and if we do requires c99 already, how come coverty do not use it ?)
 
-- 
Michael Scherer
Sysadmin, Community Infrastructure and Platform, OSAS


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