On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:58 PM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:35:19PM -0800, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:32 PM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Jan 03, 2012 at 03:26:30PM -0800, Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >> > This fixes compilation failures related to START_TIMER/STOP_TIMER 
>> >> > macros and
>> >> > -Werror=declaration-after-statement.  START_TIMER declares variables 
>> >> > and thus
>> >> > may not be placed after statements outside of a new block.
>> >>
>> >> START/STOP_TIMER are for development purposes only.  There is
>> >> absolutely no reason to make this sort of change for something that
>> >> should never be enabled except during development.
>> >
>> > Except that one cannot use it for development right now, because
>> > it will not compile?  How can development code be exempt from
>> > compilation requirements?
>>
>> -Werror=declaration-after-statement sounds like an extremely bad
>> option to enable during development, since placing strict rules on
>> variable declarations is just about the antithesis of hacking around
>> wildly with code.  START_TIMER in particular is dramatically more
>> obnoxious to use with that option.
>
> You may well have a point here, but -Werror=declaration-after-statement
> is now set by configure.  So without the braces I add or a change in
> the macros, compilation is currently failing.

A better solution would be to revert the addition of such an insane
default compilation flag.

Jason
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