[Piglit] [PATCH 3/3] cmake: Use -Werror=pointer-arith on GCC builds.

Jose Fonseca jfonseca at vmware.com
Tue Mar 3 05:46:19 PST 2015


Void pointer arithmetic is not supported on MSVC, so passing
-Werror=pointer-arith will make it easier for everybody to catch this
sort of portability issues as the code is written.
---
 CMakeLists.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 94c0958..19028cb 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -215,6 +215,12 @@ if (NOT MSVC)
 	IF (C_COMPILER_FLAG_WEVLA)
 		SET (CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -Werror=vla")
 	ENDIF ()
+	# GCC allows void pointer arithmetic, but it is not part of ISO C and
+	# in particular MSVC will throw `C2036: 'void *' : unknown size`
+	check_c_compiler_flag ("-Werror=pointer-arith" C_COMPILER_FLAG_WEPOINTER_ARITH)
+	if (C_COMPILER_FLAG_WEPOINTER_ARITH)
+		set (CMAKE_C_FLAGS "${CMAKE_C_FLAGS} -Werror=pointer-arith")
+	endif ()
 	# MSVC only supports C99 variadic macros.  It doesn't support the
 	# non-standard GNU named variadic macro syntax that's documented in
 	# https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/cpp/Variadic-Macros.html
-- 
2.1.0



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