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cmd/cgo: do not look at error message text #6596

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rsc opened this issue Oct 16, 2013 · 3 comments
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cmd/cgo: do not look at error message text #6596

rsc opened this issue Oct 16, 2013 · 3 comments
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rsc commented Oct 16, 2013

cgo currently looks at the error message text from a trial compilation to deduce whether
a name C.foo refers to a function, type, variable, or constant. We can and should change
cgo to generate programs such that only the presence or absence of an error on a
particular line is needed. This will make cgo much less dependent on the compiler
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rsc commented Oct 18, 2013

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Status changed to Started.

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rsc commented Oct 18, 2013

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This issue was closed by revision 06ad3b2.

Status changed to Fixed.

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adg commented Nov 1, 2013

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This issue was closed by revision 2acdaa9fe432.

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…t to analyze C names

««« CL 15070043 / 90a628ac54ed
cmd/cgo: stop using compiler error message text to analyze C names

The old approach to determining whether "name" was a type, constant,
or expression was to compile the C program

        name;

and scan the errors and warnings generated by the compiler.
This requires looking for specific substrings in the errors and warnings,
which ties the implementation to specific compiler versions.
As compilers change their errors or drop warnings, cgo breaks.
This happens slowly but it does happen.
Clang in particular (now required on OS X) has a significant churn rate.

The new approach compiles a slightly more complex program
that is either valid C or not valid C depending on what kind of
thing "name" is. It uses only the presence or absence of an error
message on a particular line, not the error text itself. The program is:

        // error if and only if name is undeclared
        void f1(void) { typeof(name) *x; }

        // error if and only if name is not a type
        void f2(void) { name *x; }

        // error if and only if name is not an integer constant
        void f3(void) { enum { x = (name)*1 }; }

I had not been planning to do this until Go 1.3, because it is a
non-trivial change, but it fixes a real Xcode 5 problem in Go 1.2,
and the new code is easier to understand than the old code.
It should be significantly more robust.

Fixes #6596.
Fixes #6612.

R=golang-dev, r, james, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/15070043
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R=golang-dev
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/20060044
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