[Mesa-dev] [PATCH v2] meson: Add -Werror=return-type when supported.

[Kenneth Graunke]

This warning detects non-void functions with a missing return statement,
return statements with a value in void functions, and functions with an
bogus return type that ends up defaulting to int.  It's already enabled
by default with -Wall.  Generally, these are fairly serious bugs in the
code, which developers would like to notice and fix immediately.  This
patch promotes it from a warning to an error, to help developers catch
such mistakes early.

I would not expect this warning to change much based on the compiler
version, so hopefully it won't become a problem for packagers/builders.

See the GCC documentation or 'man gcc' for more details:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-7.3.0/gcc/Warning-Options.html#index-Wreturn-type
---
 meson.build | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 505cc6c79bd..0dfe09858bf 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -788,7 +788,8 @@ endif
 # Check for generic C arguments
 c_args = []
 foreach a : ['-Wall', '-Werror=implicit-function-declaration',
-             '-Werror=missing-prototypes', '-fno-math-errno',
+             '-Werror=missing-prototypes', '-Werror=return-type',
+             '-fno-math-errno',
              '-fno-trapping-math', '-Qunused-arguments']
   if cc.has_argument(a)
     c_args += a
@@ -808,7 +809,8 @@ endif
 
 # Check for generic C++ arguments
 cpp_args = []
-foreach a : ['-Wall', '-fno-math-errno', '-fno-trapping-math',
+foreach a : ['-Wall', '-Werror=return-type',
+             '-fno-math-errno', '-fno-trapping-math',
              '-Qunused-arguments']
   if cpp.has_argument(a)
     cpp_args += a
-- 
2.19.0