Re: [musl] [PATCH] mallocng: remove stray ';' at top-level

[Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 03:26:17AM -0700, Michael Forney wrote:
> The LOCK_OBJ_DEF macro ends with the closing brace of a
> function-definition, which is a complete external-declaration. The
> semicolon following the macro use is therefore unnecessary. Empty
> declarations are not syntactically valid according to the ISO C
> grammar, so remove it.
> ---
>  src/malloc/mallocng/malloc.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/malloc/mallocng/malloc.c b/src/malloc/mallocng/malloc.c
> index d695ab8e..2549eb38 100644
> --- a/src/malloc/mallocng/malloc.c
> +++ b/src/malloc/mallocng/malloc.c
> @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
>  
>  #include "meta.h"
>  
> -LOCK_OBJ_DEF;
> +LOCK_OBJ_DEF
>  
>  const uint16_t size_classes[] = {
>  	1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8,
> -- 
> 2.44.0

This looks like a bug in how glue.h was written when mallocng was
imported into musl; from the mallocng-draft repo, it's clear that the
intent was for the declaration in LOCK_OBJ_DEF not to end in ; so that
the code in malloc.c using the macro would be correct.

Rich