configure: Force the C standard to gnu99

Different versions of GCC and Clang use different versions of the C standard.
This repeatedly caused problems already, e.g. with duplicated typedefs:

 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-11/msg05829.html

or with for-loop variable initializers:

 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-01/msg00237.html

To avoid these problems, we should enforce the C language version to the
same level for all compilers. Since our minimum compiler versions is
GCC v4.8, our best option is "gnu99" for C code right now ("gnu17" is not
available there yet, and "gnu11" is marked as "experimental"), and "gnu++98"
for the few C++ code that we have in the repository.

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 12fd34f30b..de768e2343 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ update_cxxflags() {
             -Wstrict-prototypes|-Wmissing-prototypes|-Wnested-externs|\
             -Wold-style-declaration|-Wold-style-definition|-Wredundant-decls)
                 ;;
+            -std=gnu99)
+                QEMU_CXXFLAGS=${QEMU_CXXFLAGS:+$QEMU_CXXFLAGS }"-std=gnu++98"
+                ;;
             *)
                 QEMU_CXXFLAGS=${QEMU_CXXFLAGS:+$QEMU_CXXFLAGS }$arg
                 ;;
@@ -584,7 +587,7 @@ ARFLAGS="${ARFLAGS-rv}"
 # left shift of signed integers is well defined and has the expected
 # 2s-complement style results. (Both clang and gcc agree that it
 # provides these semantics.)
-QEMU_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fwrapv $QEMU_CFLAGS"
+QEMU_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fwrapv -std=gnu99 $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wall -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE $QEMU_CFLAGS"