Bug 468145

Summary: regression: definition of system-.h-declared function disables all warnings
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jim Meyering <meyering>
Component: gcc4Assignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
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Description Jim Meyering 2008-10-23 07:56:09 UTC
Description of problem:
When I define a function that is already declared in a system header
file (same signature, of course), all warnings are disabled not only
in that function, but any following function definitions in the same
compilation unit.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 4.3 and the latest in rawhide: gcc (GCC) 4.3.2 20081007 (Red Hat 4.3.2-6)


How reproducible: always


Steps to Reproduce:
For example, with this code,

cat <<'EOF' > k.c
#include <stdlib.h>
int clearenv (void) {}
int bar (int i) { return 0; int j; return j; }
EOF

I would expect compiling with -W -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement
to warn about the decl-after-stmt and the unused parameter, but get
neither:

    $ gcc -O -W -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement -c k.c       

    $ gcc --version
    gcc (GCC) 4.3.2 20081007 (Red Hat 4.3.2-6)

gcc-4.2 does what I expect:

    $ gcc-4.2 -c -O -W -Wall -Wdeclaration-after-statement random_r.c 
    random_r.c: In function 'srandom_r':
    random_r.c:4: warning: unused parameter 'seed'
    random_r.c:4: warning: unused parameter 'buf'
    random_r.c: In function 'bar':
    random_r.c:15: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
    random_r.c:15: warning: unused variable 'i'

  

Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
FYI, this is not theoretical.  It bit me while writing gnulib's random_r module: the replacement implementation of srandom_r made it so legitimate warnings about code in subsequent functions were suppressed.

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:08:43 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:38:00 UTC
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