On Tue, 2017-01-03 at 13:54 +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
On Mon, Jan 02, 2017 at 07:15:31PM +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
>
> Clang 3.9 chokes when calling isnan() on a double variable:
>
> util/virxml.c:153:21: error: implicit conversion increases
> floating-point precision: 'double' to
> 'long double' [-Werror,-Wdouble-promotion]
> (isnan(obj->floatval))) {
> ~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~
> /usr/include/math.h:360:46: note: expanded from macro 'isnan'
> # define isnan(x) __MATH_TG ((x), __isnan, (x))
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~
> /usr/include/math.h:295:16: note: expanded from macro '__MATH_TG'
> : FUNC ## l ARGS)
> ~~~~~~~~~ ^~~~
>
> Note how the wrong version of isnan() is being called: isnanl()
> is for 'long double's, but obj->floatval is a double and a
> suitable version should be called instead.
I don't know where do you see that ^^. Good eyes, I guess =)
'FUNC ## l' turns into '__isnanl' when the macro is expanded,
and that's the isnan() variant to be used for 'long double's.
> Cast the value to 'long double' to make the compiler
happy.
> ---
> Clang seems to be tripping on the specific way the isnan()
> macro is defined in recent glibc versions; more specifically,
> if I replace the current definition in <math.h> with the one
> that predates the introduction of the __MATH_TG() macro, I
> can get the current code to compile. I was not able to find
> anything wrong with the __MATH_TG() macro though.
This sounds like a glibc <=> clang problem that we shoudn't introduce
more complexity for. Also *I* don't see this error, for a change =)
Definitely, and I would SNACK any attempt to actually merge
this :)
It's just a dirty hack that I threw together in an attempt
to get the compiler to move on with the next error: its real
value is not in the code itself but in the commit message.
I believe we should look for existing Clang / glibc bugs
about this issue and, if none is found, file one along with
a minimal reproducer, which should be fairly easy to create.
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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization