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Date:      Fri, 10 Mar 2017 11:19:33 -0800
From:      Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>, Marcelo Araujo <araujo@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r314989 - head/usr.bin/vmstat
Message-ID:  <DECB06D9-8136-491E-B786-0C853C70C472@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <0906af1d-09aa-fd1e-35cc-9361a68fc160@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201703100449.v2A4neTK046456@repo.freebsd.org> <20170310181404.C1416@besplex.bde.org> <0906af1d-09aa-fd1e-35cc-9361a68fc160@FreeBSD.org>

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> On Mar 10, 2017, at 03:59, Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
>> On 3/10/2017 2:45 AM, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>> On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, Marcelo Araujo wrote:
>>>=20
>>> ...
>>> Log:
>>> Use nitems() from sys/param.h and also remove the cast.
>>>=20
>>> Reviewed by:    markj
>>> MFC after:    3 weeks.
>>> Differential Revision:    https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9937
>>> ...
>>> Modified: head/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.c
>>> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=20
>>> --- head/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.c    Fri Mar 10 04:30:31 2017 (r314988)
>>> +++ head/usr.bin/vmstat/vmstat.c    Fri Mar 10 04:49:40 2017 (r314989)
>>> @@ -288,17 +288,13 @@ retry_nlist:
>>>                namelist[X_SUM].n_name =3D "_cnt";
>>>                goto retry_nlist;
>>>            }
>>> -            for (c =3D 0;
>>> -                 c < (int)(sizeof(namelist)/sizeof(namelist[0]));
>>> -                 c++)
>>> +            for (c =3D 0; c < nitems(namelist); c++)
>>>                if (namelist[c].n_type =3D=3D 0)
>>>                    bufsize +=3D strlen(namelist[c].n_name) + 1;
>>=20
>> This undoes fixes to compile at WARNS=3D2 in r87690 and now breaks at WAR=
NS=3D3.
>> vmstat is still compiled at WARNS=3D1.
>>=20
>> nitems suffers from the same unsigned poisoning as the sizeof() expressio=
n
>> (since it reduces to the same expression.  Casting to int in the expressi=
on
>> to fix the warning would break exotic cases.  Of course, nitems is
>> undocumented so no one knows when it is supposed to work).
>>=20
>> vmstat compiles with no errors at WARNS=3D2.  At WARNS=3D3, it used to co=
mpile
>> with 9 excessive warnings (about the good style of omitting redundant
>> initializers).  Now it compiles with 10 excessive warnings.  1 more about=

>> comparison between signed unsigned.  This warning is a compiler bug.  Bot=
h
>> gcc-4.2.1 and clang-3.9.0 have it.  It is enabled by -W, which is put in
>> CFLAGS at WARNS >=3D 3, or by -Wsign-compare.
>>=20
>> These compilers even complain about:
>>=20
>>    int c;
>>=20
>>    for (c =3D 0; c < 1U; c++)
>>        foo();
>>=20
>> where it is extremely clear that c never gets converted to a wrong value
>> when it is promoted to unsigned for the comparison.  Compilers should
>> only warn about sign mismatches if they can't figure out the ranges or
>> if they can figure out the ranges but dangerous promotiions occur.
>> Compilers do excessive unrolling and other optimizations of loops like
>> the above, and they must figure out the ranges for this.
>>=20
>=20
> I haven't looked at the code but it would seem like you can unsign c and a=
void the cast.

Yeah. This might introduce a domino effect though of changes.
Cheers!
-Ngie=



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