Re: [PATCH v1] kbuild: enforce -Werror=return-type

[Masahiro Yamada]

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 7:13 PM Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Catch errors which at least gcc tolerates by default:
>  warning: 'return' with no value, in function returning non-void [-Wreturn-type]
>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Makefile | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index f84d7e4ca0be..7b2e63e7be18 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -942,6 +942,9 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option,-Werror=date-time)
>  # enforce correct pointer usage
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option,-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types)
>
> +# enforce correct return type
> +KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option,-Werror=return-type)
> +



cc-option is unneeded because the minimal supported versions
of GCC/Clang support -Werror=return-type.

You can hard-code and add it around line 500.



>  # Require designated initializers for all marked structures
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS   += $(call cc-option,-Werror=designated-init)
>


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada