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[PATCH 2/2] nedmalloc: work around overzealous GCC 6 warning

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Aug 4, 2016, 16:07 UTC
Message-ID
<57360f4885bdd5c36e190bea288f1e1f7f706071.1470326812.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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With GCC 6, the strdup() function is declared with the "nonnull" attribute, stating that it is not allowed to pass a NULL value as parameter.

In nedmalloc()'s reimplementation of strdup(), Postel's Law is heeded and NULL parameters are handled gracefully. GCC 6 complains about that now because it thinks that NULL cannot be passed to strdup() anyway.

Let's just shut up GCC >= 6 in that case and go on with our lives.
See https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/porting_to.html for details.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
 compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c b/compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c
index 677d1b2..3f28c0b 100644
--- a/compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c
+++ b/compat/nedmalloc/nedmalloc.c
@@ -956,6 +956,9 @@ void **nedpindependent_comalloc(nedpool *p, size_t elems, size_t *sizes, void **
 char *strdup(const char *s1)
 {
 	char *s2 = 0;
+#if __GNUC__ >= 6
+#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wnonnull-compare"
+#endif
 	if (s1) {
 		size_t len = strlen(s1) + 1;
 		s2 = malloc(len);
-- 
2.9.0.281.g286a8d9
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  2. 1/2 nedmalloc: fix misleading indentationJohannes Schindelin, Aug 4, 2016
  3. 2/2 nedmalloc: work around overzealous GCC 6 warningJohannes Schindelin, Aug 4, 2016
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2016
  5. Johannes SchindelinAug 5, 2016
  6. René ScharfeAug 4, 2016
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 4, 2016
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