On Fri, 24 May 2019, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

Subject: Re: [Swan-dev] cannot compile libreswan 3.28: error: missing
    initializer for field ?isag_reserved? of ?struct isakmp_generic?

| From: António Silva <[email protected]>

| /home/packages/src/libreswan/libreswan-3.28/programs/pluto/ikev2_message.c
| /home/packages/src/libreswan/libreswan-3.28/programs/pluto/ikev2_message.c: In
| function ‘ikev2_reassemble_fragments’:
| 
/home/packages/src/libreswan/libreswan-3.28/programs/pluto/ikev2_message.c:749:2:
| error: missing initializer for field ‘isag_reserved’ of ‘struct
| isakmp_generic’ [-Werror=missing-field-initializers]

We don't explicitly enable this warning flag.  I grepped through our
tree and the only hits on this string are of the form:

        werror-no-missing-field-initializers

which I don't actually understand and appears only in
mk/docker-targets.mk.

I don't think that we want to enable such a warning: being able to
write initializers with missing fields has a well-defined meaning in
C, and certainly code that I've written exploits this.

In this particular example, isag_reserved is a reserved field; it
should be initialized to zero; the C standard says that this will
happen implicitly.

I would prefer we compile on more compilers/settings, and we do
initialize all items. Although I thought this was only an issue for
us on really old compilers (like RHEL6/CentOS6)

Paul
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