Re: [python-cffi] cffi.FFI.cdef and implicit function declarations

[Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>]

* Armin Rigo:

> Hi again,
>
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 13:12, Armin Rigo <armin.rigo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> make the declared functions available to the C code.  A typical usage
>> is to say ffi.verify('#include <something.h>').  If you are getting an
>> "implicit function" warning from the C compiler, then this was not
>> done correctly.
>
> ...In other words, if changes to the C compiler replaces these
> warnings with errors, and this breaks old existing code, then that old
> code was broken in the first place for relying on that feature.  I
> don't think there is something to say about that specifically for
> CFFI's old verify() API.  I think the problem is the same as people will
> encounter with old, manually-written C code which was broken the same way.
> The fix is to add the missing #include in both cases.  For ffi.verify()
> it is added in the first argument, which is copied into the generated C code.

Okay, this is good to know.  Thank you for taking the time to explain
it.

Florian