Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: add -Wundef to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS for W=1 builds

From: Nick Desaulniers
Date: Fri Dec 09 2022 - 13:29:45 EST


On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 8:07 PM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The use of an undefined macro in an #if directive is warned, but only
> in *.c files. No warning from other files such as *.S, *.lds.S.
>
> Since -Wundef is a preprocessor-related warning, it should be added to
> KBUILD_CPPFLAGS instead of KBUILD_CFLAGS.
>
> My previous attempt [1] uncovered several warnings, and could not finish
> fixing them all.
>
> This commit adds -Wundef to KBUILD_CPPFLAGS for W=1 builds in order to
> block new breakages. (The kbuild test robot tests with W=1)
>
> We can fix the warnings one by one. After we fix all of them, we can
> make this default in the top Makefile, and remove -Wundef from
> KBUILD_CFLAGS.

I like that approach.
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221012180118.331005-2-masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> scripts/Makefile.extrawarn | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> index 6bbba36c5969..40cd13eca82e 100644
> --- a/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> +++ b/scripts/Makefile.extrawarn
> @@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-type-limits
> KBUILD_CFLAGS += -Wno-shift-negative-value
>
> +KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -Wundef
> KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += -DKBUILD_EXTRA_WARN1
>
> else
> --
> 2.34.1
>


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Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers