Consistency of function attributes between prototype and definition

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Fri Oct 2 11:25:00 GMT 2015


glibc has a preprocessor macro called internal_function which switches
to a different calling convention on certain targets (i386 uses stdcall
and regparams).  For non-K&R function definitions, the compiler enforces
that both the prototype declaration and the definition match.

When someone writes a patch on a different architecture than i386 and
forgets to specify internal_function on both prototype and definition,
the build will pass, even though i386 will not compile.

Is there a way to use a certain harmless attribute to detect this
mismatch even on architectures where internal_function has no effect?



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