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From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-workers@zsh.org, Nicholas Vinson <nvinson234@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix configure test build errors with clang-15
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2022 08:40:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMqq9LPBSPy3GNmb5Vg2ver2Bhsn3z-qFO1czgkt37yPhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH+w=7a8==WNxoCoV35WnLTzxW1B8De-JZ4vJaLBFvjk+OrixA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 12:30 AM Bart Schaefer
<schaefer@brasslantern.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2022 at 7:42 PM Nicholas Vinson <nvinson234@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > When building with clang-15.0.0, I discovered several configure tests
> > incorrectly fail because clang-15.0.0 errors with messages similar to:
> >
> >     "error: type specifier missing, defaults to 'int'"
>
> For zsh-workers -- do we need to worry that these changed declarations
> themselves need to be conditionalized somehow, that is, are other
> compilers going to fail because of "int main()" when they expect "void
> main()"?

"void main()" has been invalid C and "int main()" valid C since the
very first standard. There are no C compilers that reject the latter.

Note that this patch is replacing "main()" (no type specifier at all)
with "int main()". The new code will work everywhere.

Roman.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-09-16  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-15  2:36 Nicholas Vinson
2022-09-15 22:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2022-09-16  5:49   ` Jun T
2022-09-16  6:40   ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2022-09-16  9:33 ` Jun T
2022-09-16 11:58   ` Nicholas Vinson

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