On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, Alexander Kabaev wrote:

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:55:22 +0000 (UTC)
Marius Strobl <mar...@freebsd.org> wrote:

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Modified: head/sys/sys/libkern.h
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/sys/libkern.h      Wed Mar 21 20:53:47 2012
(r233287) +++ head/sys/sys/libkern.h    Wed Mar 21 20:55:21
2012    (r233288) @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ size_t     strspn(const
char *, const char char *strstr(const char *, const char *);
 int     strvalid(const char *, size_t);

-extern uint32_t crc32_tab[];
+extern const uint32_t const crc32_tab[];

 static __inline uint32_t
 crc32_raw(const void *buf, size_t size, uint32_t crc)

g++ produces "error: duplicate 'const'" on this changed line. Leaving
the question as to why this file is ever being compiled by C++ on the
conscience of of VirtualBox authors, I would suggest partially backing
out this commit and getting easier on 'const' for C++'s sake.

It does have a duplicate `const'.  This is not just a style bug, since
duplicate type qualifiers are a constraint error in C90, and apparently
in C++.

TenDRA says that it violates [ISO C90 6.5.3], and indeed 6.5.3 says:

    Constraints
      The same type qualifier shall not appear more than once...
      either directly [as here] or via one or more typedefs.

6.5.3 in C90 corresponds to 6.7.3 in C99, and C99 no longer says this.
This change causes many confusing variations in behaviour:

For CC=gcc-3.3.3:
- ${CC}          without -pedantic  warns about this
- ${CC} -std=c89 without -pedantic  warns about this
- ${CC} -std=c99 with    -pedantic  doesn't warn about this (correct)
For CC=gcc-3.4.6 and gcc-4.2.1:
- ${CC}          without -pedantic  doesn't warn about this (broken)
- ${CC}          with    -pedantic  warns about this
- ${CC} -std=c89 without -pedantic  doesn't warn about this (broken)
- ${CC} -std=c99 with    -pedantic  doesn't warn about this (correct)
For CC=clang:
- ${CC}          without -pedantic  doesn't warn about this (broken)
- ${CC}          with    -pedantic  doesn't warn about this (broken)
                                    (maybe it defaults to c99, but that
                                    is an even larger incompatibility)
- ${CC} -std=c89 without -pedantic  doesn't warn about this (broken)
- ${CC} -std=c99 with    -pedantic  doesn't warn about this (correct)
For C++: apparently, closest to gcc-3.3.3 and C90.

There are also complications with warnings being broken by default in
"system" headers:
- if libkern.h is a "system" header, then to detect this bug in it,
  -Wsystem-headers must be added to CFLAGS for one the non-broken cases
  non-c99 cases above.

Bruce
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