Fix or silence compiler warnings happening in feature detections
to reduce log noise. Warnings may also get promoted to errors in certain
cases, causing missed detections.
It reduces the number of warnings by 4500+ across the linux, linux-old,
macos, non-native and windows GHA workflows (~142 jobs).
Also move picky warning logic for MSVC/Borland to
`CMake/PickyWarnings.cmake. To make them listed in the picky-warnings
log output, and to also apply to feature detections to make them compile
under the same conditions as source code. The hope is to help catching
issues faster. It also improves code quality of feature tests.
Fixed/silenced:
```
warning #177: variable "dummy" was declared but never referenced
warning #177: variable "flag" was declared but never referenced
warning #177: variable "res" was declared but never referenced
warning #592: variable "s" is used before its value is set
warning #1011: missing return statement at end of non-void function "main"
warning #1786: function "SSL_CTX_set_srp_password" (declared at line 1888 of "/usr/include/openssl/ssl.h") was declared deprecated ("Since OpenSSL 3.0")
warning #1786: function "SSL_CTX_set_srp_username" (declared at line 1887 of "/usr/include/openssl/ssl.h") was declared deprecated ("Since OpenSSL 3.0")
warning #2332: a value of type "const char *" cannot be assigned to an entity of type "char *" (dropping qualifiers)
warning: 'SSL_CTX_set_srp_password' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
warning: 'SSL_CTX_set_srp_password' is deprecated: Since OpenSSL 3.0 [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
warning: 'SSL_CTX_set_srp_username' is deprecated [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
warning: 'SSL_CTX_set_srp_username' is deprecated: Since OpenSSL 3.0 [-Wdeprecated-declarations]
warning: 'b' is used uninitialized [-Wuninitialized]
warning: 'gethostname' redeclared without dllimport attribute: previous dllimport ignored [-Wattributes]
warning: Undefined or garbage value returned to caller [core.uninitialized.UndefReturn]
warning: Value stored to 'i' is never read [deadcode.DeadStores]
warning: assigning to 'char *' from 'const char *' discards qualifiers [-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
warning: assignment discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type]
warning: empty expression statement has no effect; remove unnecessary ';' to silence this warning [-Wextra-semi-stmt]
warning: excess elements in struct initializer
warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
warning: macro "_FILE_OFFSET_BITS" is not used [-Wunused-macros]
warning: macro "_REENTRANT" is not used [-Wunused-macros]
warning: missing braces around initializer [-Wmissing-braces]
warning: no previous extern declaration for non-static variable 'off_t_is_large' [-Wmissing-variable-declarations]
warning: no previous prototype for 'check' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
warning: no previous prototype for function 'check' [-Wmissing-prototypes]
warning: null argument where non-null required (argument 2) [-Wnonnull]
warning: passing 'const char[1]' to parameter of type 'char *' discards qualifiers [-Wincompatible-pointer-types-discards-qualifiers]
warning: passing argument 2 of 'SSL_CTX_set_srp_password' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
warning: passing argument 2 of 'SSL_CTX_set_srp_username' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
warning: unused parameter 'c' [-Wunused-parameter]
warning: unused parameter 'f' [-Wunused-parameter]
warning: unused variable 'data' [-Wunused-variable]
warning: unused variable 'dummy' [-Wunused-variable]
warning: unused variable 'flag' [-Wunused-variable]
warning: unused variable 'res' [-Wunused-variable]
warning: unused variable 's' [-Wunused-variable]
warning: variable 's' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
warning: variable 'ts' set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
```
Closes#16287
- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING
checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements
Closes#10205
Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
either happens in the file itself as a comment header or in the file
`.reuse/dep5`.
This commit also adds a Github workflow to check pull requests and adapts
copyright.pl to the changes.
Closes#8869
Reported by the new script 'scripts/copyright.pl'. The script has a
regex whitelist for the files that don't need copyright headers.
Removed three (mostly usesless) README files from docs/
Closes#5141
- replace tabs with spaces where possible
- remove line ending spaces
- remove double/triple newlines at EOF
- fix a non-UTF-8 character
- cleanup a few indentations/line continuations
in manual examples
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/3037
Some basic checks we make were placed early enough in generated
configure script when using autoconf 2.5X versions. Newer autoconf
versions expand these checks much further into the configure script,
rendering them useless. Using XC_CONFIGURE_PREAMBLE fixes placement
of early intended checks across all our autoconf supported versions.
Tested with:
buildconf: autoconf version 2.69
buildconf: autom4te version 2.69
buildconf: autoheader version 2.69
buildconf: automake version 1.13.1
buildconf: aclocal version 1.13.1
buildconf: libtool version 2.4
buildconf: GNU m4 version 1.4.16
Provide a 'traceable' AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR definition only when using
an autoconf version that does not provide it, instead of what we were
doing up to now of providing and overriding AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR for
all autoconf versions.
