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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Paz Offer <poffer@nvidia.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: ISO C90 compilation error
Date: Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:14:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b333af78-88f8-4fc1-8d13-945e51d4bc55@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MW4PR12MB6997B8D6225D08E8F3E2DE55A05F2@MW4PR12MB6997.namprd12.prod.outlook.com>

On 29/02/2024 08.03, Paz Offer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to build my code with QEMU and getting compilation error 
> according to the /ISO C90 /standard:
> 
>       const size_t buf_size = 31;
>       char buffer[buf_size + 1];
> 
>       error: ISO C90 forbids array ‘buffer’ whose size can’t be evaluated 
> [-Werror=vla]
> 
> I noticed that the code builds with '-std=gnu11', which is newer then C90, 
> so this is not clear to me why I get this error.
> Where is the correct place to specify the language version for this?

The "ISO C90" part of the error message is quite misleading here. It's 
rather that we explicitly enabled -Werror=vla in our codebase recently:

  https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/64c1a5443528ac09d8cd50f365d6

See the commit description there for the rationale.

  Thomas



  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-29  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-29  7:03 ISO C90 compilation error Paz Offer
2024-02-29  7:14 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2024-02-29  7:59 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2024-02-29  9:41   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé

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