[coreboot] [RFC] Error out on implicit declarations

[Myles Watson]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Jordan Crouse <jordan at cosmicpenguin.net>wrote:

> Myles Watson wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
>> c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006 at gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>  Bao, Zheng found a bug which killed SATA booting on my board.
>>>
>>> This happened because we do not error out on implicit function
>>> declarations. The linker has no way of checking whether the implicitly
>>> assumed function signature is identical to the real signature, so
>>> mismatches can occur and these mismatches are practically impossible to
>>> debug because the code looks completely correct.
>>>
>>> Adding -Werror-implicit-function-declaration to our CFLAGS would solve
>>> this problem nicely, but a lot of files in the tree need to be fixed.
>>>
>>>
>> I think this is a great idea.  Isn't the correct order to fix all the
>> warnings, then make it an error?
>>
>
> Yeah - the unfortunate thing about changes like this is that you end up
> being responsible for fixing the errors.. :)


Here's my first patch.  It clears up all of them except get_nodes for
serengeti.

coreboot/svn/src/cpu/amd/dualcore/dualcore.c:63: warning: implicit
declaration of function 'get_nodes'

The rest were easy.  This one I'm not sure what was supposed to be here.


> Carl-Daniel - if you post a list of offending files, we'll all help clear
> them up.  Dumping the log through grep "implicit declaration of function"
> should suffice.


If you want to take the get_nodes reference, that would be great.  If this
is the way its supposed to be cleaned up, I'll keep going a little more.  I
think we should divide it up based on processor type so we don't duplicate
work.

Signed-off-by: Myles Watson <mylesgw at gmail.com>

Thanks,
Myles
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