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+/* A C macro for emitting warnings if a function is used.
+ Copyright (C) 2010-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or
+ modify it under the terms of either:
+
+ * the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
+ Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your
+ option) any later version.
+
+ or
+
+ * the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
+ Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
+ option) any later version.
+
+ or both in parallel, as here.
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+/* _GL_WARN_ON_USE (function, "literal string") issues a declaration
+ for FUNCTION which will then trigger a compiler warning containing
+ the text of "literal string" anywhere that function is called, if
+ supported by the compiler. If the compiler does not support this
+ feature, the macro expands to an unused extern declaration.
+
+ This macro is useful for marking a function as a potential
+ portability trap, with the intent that "literal string" include
+ instructions on the replacement function that should be used
+ instead. However, one of the reasons that a function is a
+ portability trap is if it has the wrong signature. Declaring
+ FUNCTION with a different signature in C is a compilation error, so
+ this macro must use the same type as any existing declaration so
+ that programs that avoid the problematic FUNCTION do not fail to
+ compile merely because they included a header that poisoned the
+ function. But this implies that _GL_WARN_ON_USE is only safe to
+ use if FUNCTION is known to already have a declaration. Use of
+ this macro implies that there must not be any other macro hiding
+ the declaration of FUNCTION; but undefining FUNCTION first is part
+ of the poisoning process anyway (although for symbols that are
+ provided only via a macro, the result is a compilation error rather
+ than a warning containing "literal string"). Also note that in
+ C++, it is only safe to use if FUNCTION has no overloads.
+
+ For an example, it is possible to poison 'getline' by:
+ - adding a call to gl_WARN_ON_USE_PREPARE([[#include <stdio.h>]],
+ [getline]) in configure.ac, which potentially defines
+ HAVE_RAW_DECL_GETLINE
+ - adding this code to a header that wraps the system <stdio.h>:
+ #undef getline
+ #if HAVE_RAW_DECL_GETLINE
+ _GL_WARN_ON_USE (getline, "getline is required by POSIX 2008, but"
+ "not universally present; use the gnulib module getline");
+ #endif
+
+ It is not possible to directly poison global variables. But it is
+ possible to write a wrapper accessor function, and poison that
+ (less common usage, like &environ, will cause a compilation error
+ rather than issue the nice warning, but the end result of informing
+ the developer about their portability problem is still achieved):
+ #if HAVE_RAW_DECL_ENVIRON
+ static char ***rpl_environ (void) { return &environ; }
+ _GL_WARN_ON_USE (rpl_environ, "environ is not always properly declared");
+ # undef environ
+ # define environ (*rpl_environ ())
+ #endif
+ */
+#ifndef _GL_WARN_ON_USE
+
+# if 4 < __GNUC__ || (__GNUC__ == 4 && 3 <= __GNUC_MINOR__)
+/* A compiler attribute is available in gcc versions 4.3.0 and later. */
+# define _GL_WARN_ON_USE(function, message) \
+extern __typeof__ (function) function __attribute__ ((__warning__ (message)))
+# elif __GNUC__ >= 3 && GNULIB_STRICT_CHECKING
+/* Verify the existence of the function. */
+# define _GL_WARN_ON_USE(function, message) \
+extern __typeof__ (function) function
+# else /* Unsupported. */
+# define _GL_WARN_ON_USE(function, message) \
+_GL_WARN_EXTERN_C int _gl_warn_on_use
+# endif
+#endif
+
+/* _GL_WARN_ON_USE_CXX (function, rettype, parameters_and_attributes, "string")
+ is like _GL_WARN_ON_USE (function, "string"), except that the function is
+ declared with the given prototype, consisting of return type, parameters,
+ and attributes.
+ This variant is useful for overloaded functions in C++. _GL_WARN_ON_USE does
+ not work in this case. */
+#ifndef _GL_WARN_ON_USE_CXX
+# if 4 < __GNUC__ || (__GNUC__ == 4 && 3 <= __GNUC_MINOR__)
+# define _GL_WARN_ON_USE_CXX(function,rettype,parameters_and_attributes,msg) \
+extern rettype function parameters_and_attributes \
+ __attribute__ ((__warning__ (msg)))
+# elif __GNUC__ >= 3 && GNULIB_STRICT_CHECKING
+/* Verify the existence of the function. */
+# define _GL_WARN_ON_USE_CXX(function,rettype,parameters_and_attributes,msg) \
+extern rettype function parameters_and_attributes
+# else /* Unsupported. */
+# define _GL_WARN_ON_USE_CXX(function,rettype,parameters_and_attributes,msg) \
+_GL_WARN_EXTERN_C int _gl_warn_on_use
+# endif
+#endif
+
+/* _GL_WARN_EXTERN_C declaration;
+ performs the declaration with C linkage. */
+#ifndef _GL_WARN_EXTERN_C
+# if defined __cplusplus
+# define _GL_WARN_EXTERN_C extern "C"
+# else
+# define _GL_WARN_EXTERN_C extern
+# endif
+#endif