[Mesa-stable] [Mesa-dev] [PATCH] glsl: Disallow return with a void argument from void functions.

[Matt Turner]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org> wrote:
> On 07/12/2013 06:04 PM, Carl Worth wrote:
>>
>> Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org> writes:
>>>
>>> From: Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Kenneth Graunke <kenneth at whitecape.org>
>>> (cherry picked from commit fcaa48d9cc8937e0ceb59dfd22ef5b6e6fd1a273)
>>>
>>> Conflicts (resolved by Carl Worth <cworth at cworth.org>):
>>>         src/glsl/ast_to_hir.cpp
>>
>>
>> [Oops. I meant to pass the --compose option to "git send-email" to add a
>> bit of explanation before sending this patch out. Adding that
>> explanation here as a reply instead.]
>>
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> Here's a version of your patch as I updated it to apply to the stable
>> branch.
>>
>> It didn't cherry-pick cleanly in the first place since master has since
>> added code based on ARB_shading_language_420pack to coerce some return
>> types.
>>
>> The stable branch doesn't add that code, so the context got confused
>> when applying this patch. Below is my resolution of the conflict.
>>
>> My reading is that even without support for shading_language_420pack on
>> the stable branch, adding this additional error case makes sense,
>> (though perhaps the comment here, which references 420pack looks a
>> little out of place, but I'm not concerned about that.)
>>
>> Please review what I did here, and let me know if you approve or if
>> something different should be done, (cherry-picking additional dependent
>> patches or dropping this from stable or other).
>>
>> -Carl
>
>
> Hey Carl, Matt,
>
> There are two kinds of bug fixes:
> 1. Patches that make valid programs work
> 2. Patches that disallow invalid programs
>
> This is in category 2 - it won't fix any applications, but runs a risk of
> breaking working programs.  We often avoid backporting these.
>
> In this case, it's a very small risk, and your backport looks fine, so I'm
> fine with it going to stable.  Either way.

Indeed. I don't have a strong preference for it to go into the stable
branch. Feel free to drop it.