Add warning option -Wold-style-declaration

This warning has been triggered a few times via the buildfarm (see
commits 8212625e53, 2b7259f855, afe86a9e73), so we might as well
add it so that everyone sees it.

(This is completely separate from the recently added
-Wold-style-definition.)

Reviewed-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Reviewed-by: Bertrand Drouvot <bertranddrouvot.pg@gmail.com>
Discussion: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/flat/aa73q1aT0A3/vke/%40ip-10-97-1-34.eu-west-3.compute.internal
This commit is contained in:
Peter Eisentraut 2026-03-30 23:12:38 +02:00
parent 993368113c
commit c73e8ee061
3 changed files with 52 additions and 5 deletions

41
configure vendored
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@ -5576,6 +5576,47 @@ fi
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether ${CC} supports -Wold-style-declaration, for CFLAGS" >&5
$as_echo_n "checking whether ${CC} supports -Wold-style-declaration, for CFLAGS... " >&6; }
if ${pgac_cv_prog_CC_cflags__Wold_style_declaration+:} false; then :
$as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
else
pgac_save_CFLAGS=$CFLAGS
pgac_save_CC=$CC
CC=${CC}
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wold-style-declaration"
ac_save_c_werror_flag=$ac_c_werror_flag
ac_c_werror_flag=yes
cat confdefs.h - <<_ACEOF >conftest.$ac_ext
/* end confdefs.h. */
int
main ()
{
;
return 0;
}
_ACEOF
if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO"; then :
pgac_cv_prog_CC_cflags__Wold_style_declaration=yes
else
pgac_cv_prog_CC_cflags__Wold_style_declaration=no
fi
rm -f core conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext conftest.$ac_ext
ac_c_werror_flag=$ac_save_c_werror_flag
CFLAGS="$pgac_save_CFLAGS"
CC="$pgac_save_CC"
fi
{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $pgac_cv_prog_CC_cflags__Wold_style_declaration" >&5
$as_echo "$pgac_cv_prog_CC_cflags__Wold_style_declaration" >&6; }
if test x"$pgac_cv_prog_CC_cflags__Wold_style_declaration" = x"yes"; then
CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -Wold-style-declaration"
fi
# -Wold-style-declaration is not applicable for C++
# To require fallthrough attribute annotations, use
# -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 with gcc and -Wimplicit-fallthrough with
# clang. The latter is also accepted on gcc but does not enforce

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@ -555,6 +555,8 @@ if test "$GCC" = yes -a "$ICC" = no; then
PGAC_PROG_CXX_CFLAGS_OPT([-Werror=unguarded-availability-new])
PGAC_PROG_CC_CFLAGS_OPT([-Wmissing-format-attribute])
PGAC_PROG_CXX_CFLAGS_OPT([-Wmissing-format-attribute])
PGAC_PROG_CC_CFLAGS_OPT([-Wold-style-declaration])
# -Wold-style-declaration is not applicable for C++
# To require fallthrough attribute annotations, use
# -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 with gcc and -Wimplicit-fallthrough with

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@ -2198,7 +2198,6 @@ vectorize_cflags = cc.get_supported_arguments(['-ftree-vectorize'])
unroll_loops_cflags = cc.get_supported_arguments(['-funroll-loops'])
common_warning_flags = [
'-Wmissing-prototypes',
'-Wpointer-arith',
# Really don't want VLAs to be used in our dialect of C
'-Werror=vla',
@ -2211,7 +2210,15 @@ common_warning_flags = [
'-Wformat-security',
]
cflags_warn += cc.get_supported_arguments(common_warning_flags)
# C-only warnings
c_warning_flags = [
'-Wmissing-prototypes',
'-Wold-style-declaration',
'-Wold-style-definition',
'-Wstrict-prototypes',
]
cflags_warn += cc.get_supported_arguments(common_warning_flags, c_warning_flags)
if have_cxx
cxxflags_warn += cxx.get_supported_arguments(common_warning_flags)
endif
@ -2252,9 +2259,6 @@ if cc.has_argument('-Wmissing-variable-declarations')
cflags_no_missing_var_decls += '-Wno-missing-variable-declarations'
endif
# These are C-only flags, supported in all C11-capable GCC/Clang versions.
cflags_warn += cc.get_supported_arguments(['-Wstrict-prototypes', '-Wold-style-definition'])
# The following tests want to suppress various unhelpful warnings by adding
# -Wno-foo switches. But gcc won't complain about unrecognized -Wno-foo
# switches, so we have to test for the positive form and if that works,