On 22.12.2008 17:32, Myles Watson wrote:
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger [mailto:c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net]
>> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 8:48 AM
>> To: jor...@cosmicpenguin.net
>> Cc: Myles Watson; Coreboot
>> Subject: Re: [coreboot] [RFC] Error out on implicit declarations
>>
>> On 18.12.2008 15:52, Jordan Crouse wrote:
>>     
>>> Myles Watson wrote:
>>>       
>>>> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 3:18 AM, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
>>>> c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@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.. :)
>>>       
>> Fix implicit declarations of get_bus_conf.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2...@gmx.net>
>>     
> Acked-by: Myles Watson <myle...@gmail.com>
>   

Thanks, r3835.

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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