I suggest to rename it and add its implementation in ShellPkg. We don't expect to use the internal function from another library or driver.
Another way is to propose adding StrniCmp() API into BaseLib. Thanks Liming >-----Original Message----- >From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-boun...@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of >Alcantara, Paulo >Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2017 2:51 AM >To: Carsey, Jaben <jaben.car...@intel.com>; edk2-devel@lists.01.org >Cc: Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu...@intel.com> >Subject: Re: [edk2] [PATCH] ShellPkg: Fix type mismatch with GCC > >Hi Jaben, > >No, we can't. InternalCharToUpper() is declared internally in BaseLib and >unexported. > >The comment above the declaration in UefiShellLevel2CommandsLib.c >explains it: > >/** > Be lazy and borrow from baselib. > > @param[in] Char The character to convert to upper case. > > @return Char as an upper case character. >**/ > >Thanks, >Paulo > >________________________________________ >From: Carsey, Jaben <jaben.car...@intel.com> >Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 4:33 PM >To: Alcantara, Paulo; edk2-devel@lists.01.org >Cc: Ni, Ruiyu >Subject: RE: [PATCH] ShellPkg: Fix type mismatch with GCC > >Are we redefining a function from BaseLib? Why not remove the redundant >definition instead of making it match? > >-Jaben > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Paulo Alcantara [mailto:pa...@hp.com] >> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 9:24 AM >> To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org >> Cc: Paulo Alcantara <pa...@hp.com>; Carsey, Jaben >> <jaben.car...@intel.com>; Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu...@intel.com> >> Subject: [PATCH] ShellPkg: Fix type mismatch with GCC >> Importance: High >> >> This patch fixes the following warning reported by GCC 6.3: >> >> >/home/pcacjr/src/edk2.git/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellLevel2CommandsLib/U >> efiShellLevel2CommandsLib.c:271:1: >> warning: type of 'InternalCharToUpper' does not match original decl >> aration [-Wlto-type-mismatch] >> InternalCharToUpper ( >> ^ >> /home/pcacjr/src/edk2.git/MdePkg/Library/BaseLib/String.c:555:1: note: >> 'InternalCharToUpper' was previously declared here >> InternalCharToUpper ( >> ^ >> >> Cc: Jaben Carsey <jaben.car...@intel.com> >> Cc: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu...@intel.com> >> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.1 >> Signed-off-by: Paulo Alcantara <pa...@hp.com> >> --- >> >> >ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellLevel2CommandsLib/UefiShellLevel2CommandsLib >> .c | 1 + >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) >> >> diff --git >> >a/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellLevel2CommandsLib/UefiShellLevel2Commands >> Lib.c >> >b/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellLevel2CommandsLib/UefiShellLevel2Commands >> Lib.c >> index 7948e53cfc..bab6631e15 100644 >> --- >> >a/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellLevel2CommandsLib/UefiShellLevel2Commands >> Lib.c >> +++ >> >b/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellLevel2CommandsLib/UefiShellLevel2Commands >> Lib.c >> @@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ VerifyIntermediateDirectories ( >> @return Char as an upper case character. >> **/ >> CHAR16 >> +EFIAPI >> InternalCharToUpper ( >> IN CONST CHAR16 Char >> ); >> -- >> 2.11.0 > >_______________________________________________ >edk2-devel mailing list >edk2-devel@lists.01.org >https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel _______________________________________________ edk2-devel mailing list edk2-devel@lists.01.org https://lists.01.org/mailman/listinfo/edk2-devel
