[C PATCH] Improve warn msg (PR c/43395)

Marek Polacek polacek@redhat.com
Fri May 2 17:35:00 GMT 2014


On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 05:01:18PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2014, Marek Polacek wrote:
> 
> > It's correct to warn about returning an address of a local label,
> > but it's clumsy to say it's "local variable.  We can easily distinguish
> > between a label and a variable.
> > 
> > Regtested/bootstrapped on x86_64-linux, ok for trunk?
> 
> You always need to have complete sentences in diagnostics for the sake of 
> translation.  Thus, you need two separate warning_at calls, one with each 
> version of the message.  (Using ? : for the whole format string isn't 
> sufficient; I think xgettext only extracts one of the two alternatives for 
> translation if you do that.)

Ooops.  Is it ok to fix it up with this patch then?

2014-05-02  Marek Polacek  <polacek@redhat.com>

c/
	* c-typeck.c (c_finish_return): Separate warning_at calls.
cp/
	* typeck.c (maybe_warn_about_returning_address_of_local): Separate
	warning_at calls.

diff --git gcc/c/c-typeck.c gcc/c/c-typeck.c
index b95fd89..f7ad91e 100644
--- gcc/c/c-typeck.c
+++ gcc/c/c-typeck.c
@@ -9273,10 +9273,14 @@ c_finish_return (location_t loc, tree retval, tree origtype)
 		  && !DECL_EXTERNAL (inner)
 		  && !TREE_STATIC (inner)
 		  && DECL_CONTEXT (inner) == current_function_decl)
-		warning_at (loc,
-			    OPT_Wreturn_local_addr, "function returns address "
-			    "of %s", TREE_CODE (inner) == LABEL_DECL
-				     ? "label" : "local variable");
+		{
+		  if (TREE_CODE (inner) == LABEL_DECL)
+		    warning_at (loc, OPT_Wreturn_local_addr,
+				"function returns address of label");
+		  else
+		    warning_at (loc, OPT_Wreturn_local_addr,
+				"function returns address of local variable");
+		}
 	      break;
 
 	    default:
diff --git gcc/cp/typeck.c gcc/cp/typeck.c
index 8b7cb8d..7b28a9a 100644
--- gcc/cp/typeck.c
+++ gcc/cp/typeck.c
@@ -8309,10 +8309,12 @@ maybe_warn_about_returning_address_of_local (tree retval)
       if (TREE_CODE (valtype) == REFERENCE_TYPE)
 	warning (OPT_Wreturn_local_addr, "reference to local variable %q+D returned",
 		 whats_returned);
+      else if (TREE_CODE (whats_returned) == LABEL_DECL)
+	warning (OPT_Wreturn_local_addr, "address of label %q+D returned",
+		 whats_returned);
       else
-	warning (OPT_Wreturn_local_addr, "address of %s %q+D returned",
-		 TREE_CODE (whats_returned) == LABEL_DECL
-		 ? "label" : "local variable", whats_returned);
+	warning (OPT_Wreturn_local_addr, "address of local variable %q+D "
+		 "returned", whats_returned);
       return;
     }
 }

	Marek



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