[PATCH 14/23] mprotect.c: Remove warning for no prototype

Gedare Bloom gedare at rtems.org
Thu Sep 4 16:19:52 UTC 2014


On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Joel Sherrill
<joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> ---
>  cpukit/posix/src/mprotect.c | 23 ++++++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/cpukit/posix/src/mprotect.c b/cpukit/posix/src/mprotect.c
> index f2f8af6..51b565e 100644
> --- a/cpukit/posix/src/mprotect.c
> +++ b/cpukit/posix/src/mprotect.c
> @@ -3,10 +3,19 @@
>   *
>   * @brief Change Memory Protection
>   * @ingroup POSIXAPI
> + *
> + * 12.2.3 Change Memory Protection, P1003.1b-1996, p. 277.
> + *
> + * This is not a functional version of mprotect() but the SPARC backend
> + * for at least gcc 2.8.1 plus gnat 3.13p and gcc 3.0.1 require it to
> + * be there and return 0.
> + *
> + * As of gcc 4.2.2, the gcc SPARC backend doesn't appear to have a
> + * way to call this for RTEMS anymore but it doesn't hurt to leave it.
>   */
>
>  /*
> - *  COPYRIGHT (c) 1989-2007.
> + *  COPYRIGHT (c) 1989-2014.
>   *  On-Line Applications Research Corporation (OAR).
>   *
>   *  The license and distribution terms for this file may be
> @@ -21,16 +30,12 @@
>  #include <unistd.h>
>
>  /*
> - *  12.2.3 Change Memory Protection, P1003.1b-1996, p. 277.
> - *
> - *  This is not a functional version but the SPARC backend for at least
> - *  gcc 2.8.1 plus gnat 3.13p and gcc 3.0.1 require it to be there and
> - *  return 0.
> - *
> - *  As of gcc 4.2.2, the gcc SPARC backend doesn't appear to have a
> - *  way to call this for RTEMS anymore but it doesn't hurt to leave it.
> + * RTEMS does not have <sys/mman.h> so we need a prototype here to
> + * avoid warnings.
>   */
>
> +int mprotect( const void *, size_t, int );
> +
I don't like (despise) adding prototypes to C files just to get rid of
this warning. The prototype should be coming from whatever header
provides the function, or the function should be declared static.

>  int mprotect(
>    const void *addr __attribute__((unused)),
>    size_t len __attribute__((unused)),
> --
> 1.9.3
>
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