Makefile: detect compiler and enable more warnings in DEVELOPER=1

The set of extra warnings we enable when DEVELOPER has to be
conservative because we can't assume any compiler version the
developer may use. Detect the compiler version so we know when it's
safe to enable -Wextra and maybe more.

These warning settings are mostly from my custom config.mak a long
time ago when I tried to enable as many warnings as possible that can
still build without showing warnings. Some of those warnings are
probably worth fixing instead of just suppressing in future.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

3 files changed, 96 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 7f40f76739..9ea2e50bb8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -431,6 +431,10 @@ all::
 #
 # When cross-compiling, define HOST_CPU as the canonical name of the CPU on
 # which the built Git will run (for instance "x86_64").
+#
+# Define DEVELOPER to enable more compiler warnings. Compiler version
+# and family are auto detected, but could be overridden by defining
+# COMPILER_FEATURES (see config.mak.dev)
 
 GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE
 	@$(SHELL_PATH) ./GIT-VERSION-GEN
@@ -439,15 +443,6 @@ GIT-VERSION-FILE: FORCE
 # CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are for the users to override from the command line.
 
 CFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall
-DEVELOPER_CFLAGS = -Werror \
-	-Wdeclaration-after-statement \
-	-Wno-format-zero-length \
-	-Wold-style-definition \
-	-Woverflow \
-	-Wpointer-arith \
-	-Wstrict-prototypes \
-	-Wunused \
-	-Wvla
 LDFLAGS =
 ALL_CFLAGS = $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)
 ALL_LDFLAGS = $(LDFLAGS)
@@ -1047,7 +1042,7 @@ include config.mak.uname
 -include config.mak
 
 ifdef DEVELOPER
-CFLAGS += $(DEVELOPER_CFLAGS)
+include config.mak.dev
 endif
 
 comma := ,
diff --git a/config.mak.dev b/config.mak.dev
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..716a14ecc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config.mak.dev
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+CFLAGS += -Werror
+CFLAGS += -Wdeclaration-after-statement
+CFLAGS += -Wno-format-zero-length
+CFLAGS += -Wold-style-definition
+CFLAGS += -Woverflow
+CFLAGS += -Wpointer-arith
+CFLAGS += -Wstrict-prototypes
+CFLAGS += -Wunused
+CFLAGS += -Wvla
+
+ifndef COMPILER_FEATURES
+COMPILER_FEATURES := $(shell ./detect-compiler $(CC))
+endif
+
+ifneq ($(filter clang4,$(COMPILER_FEATURES)),)
+CFLAGS += -Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare
+endif
+
+ifneq ($(or $(filter gcc6,$(COMPILER_FEATURES)),$(filter clang4,$(COMPILER_FEATURES))),)
+CFLAGS += -Wextra
+# if a function is public, there should be a prototype and the right
+# header file should be included. If not, it should be static.
+CFLAGS += -Wmissing-prototypes
+# These are disabled because we have these all over the place.
+CFLAGS += -Wno-empty-body
+CFLAGS += -Wno-missing-field-initializers
+CFLAGS += -Wno-sign-compare
+CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-function
+CFLAGS += -Wno-unused-parameter
+endif
+
+# uninitialized warnings on gcc 4.9.2 in xdiff/xdiffi.c and config.c
+# not worth fixing since newer compilers correctly stop complaining
+ifneq ($(filter gcc4,$(COMPILER_FEATURES)),)
+ifeq ($(filter gcc5,$(COMPILER_FEATURES)),)
+CFLAGS += -Wno-uninitialized
+endif
+endif
diff --git a/detect-compiler b/detect-compiler
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..70b754481c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/detect-compiler
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# Probe the compiler for vintage, version, etc. This is used for setting
+# optional make knobs under the DEVELOPER knob.
+
+CC="$*"
+
+# we get something like (this is at least true for gcc and clang)
+#
+# FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE...)
+get_version_line() {
+	$CC -v 2>&1 | grep ' version '
+}
+
+get_family() {
+	get_version_line | sed 's/^\(.*\) version [0-9][^ ]* .*/\1/'
+}
+
+get_version() {
+	get_version_line | sed 's/^.* version \([0-9][^ ]*\) .*/\1/'
+}
+
+print_flags() {
+	family=$1
+	version=$(get_version | cut -f 1 -d .)
+
+	# Print a feature flag not only for the current version, but also
+	# for any prior versions we encompass. This avoids needing to do
+	# numeric comparisons in make, which are awkward.
+	while test "$version" -gt 0
+	do
+		echo $family$version
+		version=$((version - 1))
+	done
+}
+
+case "$(get_family)" in
+gcc)
+	print_flags gcc
+	;;
+clang)
+	print_flags clang
+	;;
+"FreeBSD clang")
+	print_flags clang
+	;;
+"Apple LLVM")
+	print_flags clang
+	;;
+*)
+	: unknown compiler family
+	;;
+esac