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Date:      Thu, 10 Jul 2014 17:53:43 +0200
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r268491 - head/usr.bin/users
Message-ID:  <20140710155342.GB93051@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20140710154213.GG1812@ptrcrt.ch>
References:  <201407101215.s6ACF3v1055260@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJOYFBCQjjN7ep12zivnmFjfeeP1SeoYa963mQbMJr9DD%2BfUnw@mail.gmail.com> <20140710152353.GF1812@ptrcrt.ch> <CAJOYFBDZiEpQ5e86%2BdBhRZobSjdf785bKBwh%2B3Eywhzn_iJJCQ@mail.gmail.com> <20140710154213.GG1812@ptrcrt.ch>

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On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 05:42:13PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> On 2014-Jul-10, 17:29, Ed Schouten wrote:
> > On 10 July 2014 17:23, Pietro Cerutti <gahr@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > It's because of the standard library. Examples:
> > >
> > > /usr/include/c++/v1/memory:1454:47: error: unused parameter '__a'
> > > [-Werror,-Wunused-parameter]
> > >         static void construct(allocator_type& __a, _Tp* __p)
> > >
> > > /usr/include/c++/v1/__functional_base:85:12: error: cast from 'const
> > > volatile char *' to 'wchar_t *' increases required alignment from 1 t=
o 4
> > > [-Werror,-Wcast-align]
> > >     return (_Tp*)&reinterpret_cast<const volatile char&>(__x);
> >=20
> > Then I would suggest that these specific warnings (-Wunused-parameter)
> > were to be disabled for C++ programs. The actual consumers should not
> > have to lower their WARNS, simply because the standard library is
> > broken.
> >=20
> > > Yes, except std::set implements bidirection iterators instead of rand=
om
> > > access iterators. Bidirectional iterators do not support arithmetic w=
ith
> > > integers, which I need to get to the previous-to-last element in the
> > > very next line of code.
> >=20
> > The decrement operator is sufficient for this:
> >=20
> > http://80386.nl/pub/20140710-users.txt
> >=20
> > >> Even though I actually think C++ is a lot nicer than C, do we really
> > >> think it is actually worth proactively replacing already existent
> > >> tools? This specific tool has now become three times as big as the
> > >> previous version (7128 -> 23840 bytes).
> > >
> > > No, I'm not going to systematically replace everything with c++. The
> > > thing is, I had already begun to refactor a bit users(1), and this
> > > looked like the natural next step to me. Of course, here the trade off
> > > between code readability and object size shows.
> >=20
> > With the patch above, the binary shrinks to 15640 bytes, so my
> > concerns are somewhat addressed. :-)
>=20
> Yep that's a valid approach too. Feel free to get it in :)
>=20
Just make sure not to break mips, powerpc and sparc64 which are still using
gcc 4.2 :)

regards,
Bapt

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