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[PATCH 00/52] fix some -Wmissing-field-initializer warnings

From
Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Date
May 24, 2019, 20:28 UTC
Message-ID
<cf0b720e-ad29-79e7-17d5-b69d50e7007e@ramsayjones.plus.com>
[No, I won't be sending 52 patches to the list!]

This series, started last year, has been hanging around because the time never seemed right to send it to the list. It may still not be the right time ... :-D

I would like to be able to compile git using '-Wall -Wextra -Werror' compiler options. In order to see how far away we are from that possibility, you can build with DEVELOPER=1 along with the additional settings: 'DEVOPTS=extra-all no-error pedantic'.

That leads to many warnings:
      $ git describe
      v2.22.0-rc1
      $ make >out 2>&1
      $ grep warning out | sed -e 's/.*\[-W/\[-W/' | sort | uniq -c
            9 [-Wempty-body]
         1694 [-Wmissing-field-initializers]
          159 [-Wpedantic]
          945 [-Wsign-compare]
         2821 [-Wunused-parameter]
      $

Note that at the beginning of this cycle, the numbers were quite a bit smaller (and this series was only 37 patches, rather than 52):

      $ git describe
      v2.21.0
      $ make >out 2>&1
      $ grep warning out | sed -e 's/.*\[-W/\[-W/' | sort | uniq -c
            9 [-Wempty-body]
          759 [-Wmissing-field-initializers]
          925 [-Wsign-compare]
         2732 [-Wunused-parameter]
      $

This series removes the, newly introduced, pedantic warnings and eliminates all 1371 'missing-field-initializers' warnings that relate to 'struct option':

      $ cat out-warn-master.stats
            9 [-Wempty-body]
          323 [-Wmissing-field-initializers]
          945 [-Wsign-compare]
         2821 [-Wunused-parameter]
      $ 

Thus, after about six months, I am further away from my target than when I started! ;-)

This series does not fix any problems or add any new features, so it is not important (hence the tendency to 'slip'). I don't want to flood the mailing list with patches that nobody wants, so: is there any interest in these kinds of patches? If not, I will stop now! (I have a 2-3 year old branch that addressed the '-Wsign-compare' warnings, but that is probably beyond salvaging by now :( ).

This series is available from: git://repo.or.cz/git/raj.git with the branch name 'warn-master'. A trial merge to current 'next' and 'pu' branches can be found at 'warn-next' and 'warn-pu' branches. (The merge to 'next' went without problem, and 'pu' only required a fixup to the builtin/commit patch).

[The 'warn-v2.21' branch shows the previous version of the series.]
What do you think?
Thanks!

ATB, Ramsay Jones

Ramsay Jones (52):
  parse-options: reformat the OPT_X() macros
  parse-options: move some one-line OPT_X() macros
  parse-options: rename callback parameter from 'f' to 'cb'
  parse-options: add missing field initializers
  list-objects-filter-options: add missing initializer
  ref-filter.h: add missing field initializers
  parse-options: add an OPT_LL_CALLBACK() macro
  parse-options.h: add 'd' parameter to OPT_INTEGER_F()
  parse-options.h: fix some -Wpedantic warnings
  builtin/update-index: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/log: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/notes: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/grep: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/commit: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  apply.c: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/rebase: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/config: add missing field initializers
  test-parse-options: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/read-tree: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/merge: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/fetch: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/commit-tree: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/tag: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/push: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/pack-objects: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/ls-files: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/blame: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/show-ref: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/show-branch: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/send-pack: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/pull: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/fmt-merge-msg: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/describe: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/cat-file: fix some -Wmissing-field-initializers warnings
  builtin/shortlog: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/reset: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/remote: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/ls-remote: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/interpret-trailers: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/clean: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/checkout-index: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/checkout: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/branch: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/add: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/write-tree: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/revert: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/name-rev: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/init-db: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/gc: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/clone: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  builtin/am: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
  diff.c: fix an -Wmissing-field-initializers warning
 apply.c                       |  28 ++---
 builtin/add.c                 |   4 +-
 builtin/am.c                  |   6 +-
 builtin/blame.c               |   6 +-
 builtin/branch.c              |   7 +-
 builtin/cat-file.c            |   8 +-
 builtin/checkout-index.c      |   4 +-
 builtin/checkout.c            |   7 +-
 builtin/clean.c               |   5 +-
 builtin/clone.c               |   2 +-
 builtin/commit-tree.c         |  24 ++--
 builtin/commit.c              |  21 ++--
 builtin/config.c              |   2 +-
 builtin/describe.c            |   8 +-
 builtin/fetch.c               |  17 +--
 builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c       |  10 +-
 builtin/gc.c                  |   3 +-
 builtin/grep.c                |  24 ++--
 builtin/init-db.c             |   4 +-
 builtin/interpret-trailers.c  |   4 +-
 builtin/log.c                 |  56 ++++-----
 builtin/ls-files.c            |  12 +-
 builtin/ls-remote.c           |   4 +-
 builtin/merge.c               |  17 +--
 builtin/name-rev.c            |   8 +-
 builtin/notes.c               |  32 ++---
 builtin/pack-objects.c        |  12 +-
 builtin/pull.c                |  16 +--
 builtin/push.c                |  22 ++--
 builtin/read-tree.c           |  19 +--
 builtin/rebase.c              |  69 ++++++-----
 builtin/remote.c              |   5 +-
 builtin/reset.c               |   5 +-
 builtin/revert.c              |   5 +-
 builtin/send-pack.c           |  11 +-
 builtin/shortlog.c            |   4 +-
 builtin/show-branch.c         |  10 +-
 builtin/show-ref.c            |  11 +-
 builtin/tag.c                 |  19 ++-
 builtin/update-index.c        |  61 +++++-----
 builtin/write-tree.c          |   6 +-
 diff.c                        |   4 +-
 list-objects-filter-options.h |   2 +-
 parse-options.h               | 216 ++++++++++++++++++++++------------
 ref-filter.h                  |   2 +-
 t/helper/test-parse-options.c |  16 +--
 46 files changed, 458 insertions(+), 380 deletions(-)
-- 
2.21.0
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Message 1 of 6 in “fix some -Wmissing-field-initializer warnings”
  1. 00/52 fix some -Wmissing-field-initializer warningsRamsay Jones, May 24, 2019
  2. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 24, 2019
  3. Ramsay JonesMay 24, 2019
  4. Johannes SixtMay 30, 2019
  5. Jeff KingMay 30, 2019
  6. Ramsay JonesMay 30, 2019

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