[PATCH 08/59] misc: Fix clang -Wstring-plus-int warnings on syslog

Sam James sam@gentoo.org
Mon Oct 20 19:43:53 GMT 2025


Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:

> clang issues:
>
> syslog.c:193:9: error: adding 'int' to a string does not append to the string [-Werror,-Wstring-plus-int]
>   193 |                       SYSLOG_HEADER (pri, timestamp, &msgoff, pid));
>       |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> syslog.c:180:7: note: expanded from macro 'SYSLOG_HEADER'
>   180 |   "[" + (pid == 0), pid, "]" + (pid == 0)
>
> Use array indexes instead of string addition (it is simpler than
> add a supress warning).
> ---
>  misc/syslog.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/misc/syslog.c b/misc/syslog.c
> index 4af87f54fd..fab2373089 100644
> --- a/misc/syslog.c
> +++ b/misc/syslog.c
> @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
>  static char sccsid[] = "@(#)syslog.c	8.4 (Berkeley) 3/18/94";
>  #endif /* LIBC_SCCS and not lint */
>  
> +#include <libc-diag.h>
>  #include <libio/libioP.h>
>  #include <paths.h>
>  #include <stdarg.h>
> @@ -174,7 +175,7 @@ __vsyslog_internal (int pri, const char *fmt, va_list ap,
>    "<%d>%s%n%s%s%.0d%s: ",                                \
>    __pri, __timestamp, __msgoff,                          \
>    LogTag == NULL ? __progname : LogTag,                  \
> -  "[" + (pid == 0), pid, "]" + (pid == 0)
> +  &"[" [pid == 0], pid, &"]"[pid == 0]

I guess drop the whitespace before [pid?

>  
>  #define SYSLOG_HEADER_WITHOUT_TS(__pri, __msgoff)        \
>    "<%d>: %n", __pri, __msgoff
> @@ -274,7 +275,7 @@ __vsyslog_internal (int pri, const char *fmt, va_list ap,
>    /* Output to stderr if requested. */
>    if (LogStat & LOG_PERROR)
>      __dprintf (STDERR_FILENO, "%s%s", buf + msgoff,
> -	       "\n" + (buf[bufsize - 1] == '\n'));
> +	       &"\n"[buf[bufsize - 1] == '\n']);
>  
>    /* Get connected, output the message to the local logger.  */
>    if (!connected)


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