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

Sam James sam@gentoo.org
Wed Oct 22 16:18:58 GMT 2025



> On 22 Oct 2025, at 17:08, Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 20/10/25 16:43, Sam James wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> Right, I will do. Are you ok with this change?
> 
>> 

OK

>>> 
>>> #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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