Re: MISRA: Compatible declarations for sort and bsearch

[Nicola Vetrini <nicola.vetrini@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2023-11-28 09:56, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 24.11.2023 10:40, Nicola Vetrini wrote:
> > in xen/lib.h and xen/sort.h there are definitions of the functions
> > bsearch and sort that have no prior declarations, and therefore are
> > subject to a violation of MISRA C Rule 8.4.
> >
> > I'm wondering whether it would be preferred
> >
> > 1. to put a declaration just before the definition, in lib.h and 
> > sort.h
> > 2. deviate these functions, as their signatures are well-known and
> > somewhat standardized
> Seeing that so far no-one else has replied to this: My take is 
> "neither".
> It is the very nature of extern gnu_inline functions to work like this.
This could well be a justification text: violations of required rules 
need either to be fixed or justified.
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Nicola Vetrini, BSc
Software Engineer, BUGSENG srl (https://bugseng.com)