We recently put in a feature on the trunk to put in ident strings in
the 3 OMPI libraries.
Short version:
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We use "#ident foo" for GNU, but it emits a stderr warning that it's a
GCC extension when used with -pedantic (we check that #ident works in
configure). Does anyone care? Should we add an option to disable
#ident for GNU compilers?
Longer version:
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configure checks for 2 things:
1. Does "#pragma ident <foo>" work
2. Does "#ident <foo>" work
If either of these work (in order), they are used. If neither work, a
static const char[] is used. This feature was added as part of the
"branding" strategy, and also to help Sun with debugging because they
have a handy command (ident(1)? I don't remember offhand) that will
look for the #pragma ident in a library and print it out. Good for
support issues.
However, the GNU compilers support #ident but apparently print a
stderr warning about it when -pedantic is used (which we automatically
enable for debugging builds via --enable-picky).
Does anyone care? Should we put in an option to turn off #ident for
the GNU compilers (perhaps only when -pedantic is used)?
I ask because a few people have noticed the new output on stderr and
asked me about it, so I figured I'd raise the "does anyone care?"
flag...
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Jeff Squyres
Cisco Systems
