Eric Blake 0d166c6b7c build: detect potentential uninitialized variables
Even with -Wuninitialized (which is part of autobuild.sh
--enable-compile-warnings=error), gcc does NOT catch this
use of an uninitialized variable:

{
  if (cond)
    goto error;
  int a = 1;
error:
  printf("%d", a);
}

which prints 0 (supposing the stack started life wiped) if
cond was true.  Clang will catch it, but we don't use clang
as often.  Using gcc -Wjump-misses-init catches it, but also
gives false positives:

{
  if (cond)
    goto error;
  int a = 1;
  return a;
error:
  return 0;
}

Here, a was never used in the scope of the error block, so
declaring it after goto is technically fine (and clang agrees).
However, given that our HACKING already documents a preference
to C89 decl-before-statement, the false positive warning is
enough of a prod to comply with HACKING.

[Personally, I'd _really_ rather use C99 decl-after-statement
to minimize scope, but until gcc can efficiently and reliably
catch scoping and uninitialized usage bugs, I'll settle with
the compromise of enforcing a coding standard that happens to
reject false positives if it can also detect real bugs.]

* acinclude.m4 (LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS): Add -Wjump-misses-init.
* src/util/util.c (__virExec): Adjust offenders.
* src/conf/domain_conf.c (virDomainTimerDefParseXML): Likewise.
* src/remote/remote_driver.c (doRemoteOpen): Likewise.
* src/phyp/phyp_driver.c (phypGetLparNAME, phypGetLparProfile)
(phypGetVIOSFreeSCSIAdapter, phypVolumeGetKey)
(phypGetStoragePoolDevice)
(phypVolumeGetPhysicalVolumeByStoragePool)
(phypVolumeGetPath): Likewise.
* src/vbox/vbox_tmpl.c (vboxNetworkUndefineDestroy)
(vboxNetworkCreate, vboxNetworkDumpXML)
(vboxNetworkDefineCreateXML): Likewise.
* src/xenapi/xenapi_driver.c (getCapsObject)
(xenapiDomainDumpXML): Likewise.
* src/xenapi/xenapi_utils.c (createVMRecordFromXml): Likewise.
* src/security/security_selinux.c (SELinuxGenNewContext):
Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_command.c (qemuBuildCommandLine): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_hotplug.c (qemuDomainChangeEjectableMedia):
Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_process.c (qemuProcessWaitForMonitor): Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c (qemuMonitorTextGetPtyPaths):
Likewise.
* src/qemu/qemu_driver.c (qemudDomainShutdown)
(qemudDomainBlockStats, qemudDomainMemoryPeek): Likewise.
* src/storage/storage_backend_iscsi.c
(virStorageBackendCreateIfaceIQN): Likewise.
* src/node_device/node_device_udev.c (udevProcessPCI): Likewise.
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2010-05-27 01:28:21 +02:00

    Explanation about the how multi-version support
    for VirtualBox libvirt driver is implemented.

Since VirtualBox adds multiple new features for each release, it is but
natural that the C API which VirtualBox exposes is volatile across
versions and thus needs a good mechanism to handle multiple versions
during runtime. The solution was something like this:

Firstly the file structure is as below:

vbox_CAPI_v2_2.h
vbox_XPCOMCGlue.h
vbox_XPCOMCGlue.c
These files are C API/glue code files directly taken from the
VirtualBox OSE source and is needed for C API to work as expected.

vbox_driver.h
vbox_driver.c
These files have the main logic for registering the virtualbox driver
with libvirt.

vbox_V2_2.c
The file which has version dependent changes and includes the template
file for given below for all of its functionality.

vbox_tmpl.c
The file where all the real driver implementation code exists.

Now there would be a vbox_V*.c file (for eg: vbox_V2_2.c for V2.2) for
each major virtualbox version which would do some preprocessor magic
and include the template file (vbox_tmpl.c) in it for the functionality
it offers.