On Fri, Dec 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM Nicholas Vinson <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 12/11/25 13:48, Uri Lublin wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Dec 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM Nicholas Vinson <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 12/11/25 06:55, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> >      > On Sun, 7 Dec 2025 at 12:20, Nicholas Vinson
> >     <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >      >>
> >      >> When building with g++-16, the build fails with the following
> error:
> >      >>
> >      >>      server/tests/test-display-base.cpp:809:5: error: either all
> >     initializer
> >      >>      clauses should be designated or none of them should be
> >      >>
> >      >> This is because g++-16 defaults to c++20 and when using
> designated
> >      >> initializers with c++20, you don't wrap anonymous union fields
> >     with braces.
> >      >>
> >      >> Nicholas Vinson (2):
> >      >>    m4/spice-compile-warnings.m4: disable -Wmissing-braces
> >      >>    test-display-base.cpp: adjust designated init.
> >      >>
> >      >>   m4/spice-compile-warnings.m4       | 1 +
> >      >>   server/tests/test-display-base.cpp | 2 +-
> >      >>   2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >      >>
> >      >
> >      > The CI is not that happy. I added some commit to make it pass:
> >      > - missing AUTHORS for "make syntax-check"
> >      > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fziglio/spice/-/commit/
> >     fb018b3fbb26f38b2ffb0ee569d4aafc287fc738 <https://
> >     gitlab.freedesktop.org/fziglio/spice/-/commit/
> >     fb018b3fbb26f38b2ffb0ee569d4aafc287fc738>
> >      > - too old Fedora (not related to these changes)
> >      > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fziglio/spice/-/commit/
> >     a4525e204ef8b7e3beb3709823029e27de633d7a <https://
> >     gitlab.freedesktop.org/fziglio/spice/-/commit/
> >     a4525e204ef8b7e3beb3709823029e27de633d7a>
> >      > - compatibility with pretty old GCC
> >      > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/fziglio/spice/-/
> >     commit/6a2c24fd5c088cb3b016a40965882e98f010b583 <https://
> >     gitlab.freedesktop.org/fziglio/spice/-/
> >     commit/6a2c24fd5c088cb3b016a40965882e98f010b583>
> >
> >
> > Frediano, where did you take the 10 from ?
> > Shouldn't it check if the gcc version is 16 (or even 20) ?
> >
> >
> >
> >     I'm concerned about the old GCC compatibility commit. I think it
> would
> >     be more robust if designated initializer feature checks were added to
> >     configure.ac <http://configure.ac> and meson.build instead.
> >
> >     That way you don't have to worry about how old or new the compiler
> >     is or
> >     if it implements the necessary GCC extensions, or implements them
> >     correctly.
> >
> >
> > Do you mean compiling a simple program with designated initializers in
> > meson/configure ?
>
> That's exactly what I mean.
>

It is a bit safer, but I think we can trust gcc in this case, like
Frediano's patch does.

Thanks,
    Uri.


>
> Regards,
> Nicholas Vinson
>
> >
> > Regards,
> >      Uri.
> >
> >
> >     Regards,
> >     Nicholas Vinson
> >
> >      >
> >      > Do they sound good?
> >      > I suppose the compatibility one could be merged.
> >      >
> >      > Regards,
> >      >    Frediano
> >
>
>

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