[9] RFR(L): 8037816 : Fix for 8036122 breaks build with Xcode5/clang

[David Chase]

On 2014-04-17, at 6:26 PM, Christian Thalinger <christian.thalinger at oracle.com> wrote:
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> + #if defined(__clang_major__) || (__GNUC__ >= 4) && (__GNUC_MINOR__ >= 6)
> Do all versions of Clang support push and pop?

I don't know -- what versions of clang are we likely to use?

>> (3) In many cases, the best fix is to replace a call to a method expecting a format with one to a method expecting only a string.  That is, replace “print(s)” with “print_raw(s)”.  Note that when there is a single parameter this cannot possibly be a mistake.
> 
> Yes, it fixes the problem but it will be difficult to remember or know (for new people) that you should use print_raw instead.

What's the alternative?  Once we get our compilers up to decent revisions, the checking will just be there, and
anyone who writes print(s) will get an error.

The reason I used "print_raw" was that it was already there, and it was the least-violence change to the code;
no need to insert "%s", before the string, etc.  "raw" makes it sound sort of unsafe, but it's the moral equivalent of puts(s).


>> (4) Use new P2I macro to clean up some of the Linux format warnings; this was feasible for some of the printf-like internal methods that were not called too often with technically-mismatched types and format specifiers.
>> #define P2I(p) ((intptr_t)(p))
> 
> Can we please not use a macro for this?  Use an inline method instead.

Will do.  What does a top-level inline method look like?
Would this do?

static inline intptr_t p2i(void * p) { return (intptr_t) p; }

David