Re: [PATCH] meson.build: Remove the -Wvla-larger-then flag

On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 12:37:36PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > The flag has a typo in it, it's "...-than=..." and not "...-then=...", > so this was in fact never used. Since we're also using -Wvla (without > size), we should already get warnings about any variable length arrays > anyway, so the additional "-Wvla-larger-than" does not make much sense > and thus we can simply drop this. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth(a)redhat.com&gt; > --- > meson.build | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > This makes sense to me and I could not find any possible typo alias anywhere (like we have in virsh, for example). The only thing I am unsure about is whether we want to actually use the proper naming. The reason is that by default this is set to vla-larger-than=PTRDIFF_MAX which is pretty huge number. On the other hand the man page for GCC says it is only effective with -ftree-vrp (-02 and above).

I do not see whether using the predefined alloc_max would make sense or not. So I am not against just removing it, but feel free to overrule me as I did not look into this as much as others will be capable of. Reviewed-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; > diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build > index 4f23f9104e..40c841e777 100644 > --- a/meson.build > +++ b/meson.build > @@ -390,7 +390,6 @@ cc_flags += [ > '-Wvariadic-macros', > '-Wvector-operation-performance', > '-Wvla', > - '-Wvla-larger-then=4031', > '-Wvolatile-register-var', > '-Wwrite-strings', > ] > -- > 2.27.0 >