Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Use of C99 code in 0.10.8

[Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> LEGO wrote:
>
> > A question, what do I have to change to compile with -pedantic?
>
>
> Nothing, at least on OS X, it appears.
>
> Another question might be "what do we have to change so that compiling 
> with -pedantic doesn't produce any more warnings than compiling without 
> -pedantic does?"  I've fixed some of the warnings, but not all - there 
> are a bunch of warnings about converting between "char *" and "{guchar 
> *, guint8 *, unsigned char *)", for example.
>
> In addition, the configure script option that enables -pedantic also 
> enables a number of other options, which cause other warnings, such as 
> warnings about function declarations in system or third-party package 
> headers that don't have prototype arguments.  There's at least one case 
> where either a GLib or GTK+ header (I forget which) declares a function 
> without a prototype (in a deliberate attempt to avoid function prototype 
> checking), which produces a warning with -pedantic, at least with the 
> compiler I have).  I think I've seen on at least some versions of 
> Solaris declarations in X11 headers that have no prototypes.

IIRC all you need to do is supply the right compiler options to get 
proper prototypes.

I don't have the Solaris one at hand, but with AIX 4.x headers it is 
-DFUNCPROTO=15

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