[cfe-dev] ccache and 'unused argument' warning

[Diego Iastrubni]

... wait, ccache support clang? that's good news :)

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

> A user who uses ccache reported that it is apparently doing something that
> causes it to emit tons of "argument unused during compilation warnings".  A
> typical invocation is something like this:
>
> ccache clang++ -m32 -mmmx -msse  -pipe -march=pentium-m
> -I/usr/include/malloc -fasm-blocks -arch i386 -isysroot
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk -mmacosx-version-min=10.5
> -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-unused-parameter
> -Wno-reorder -Wno-unused-value -Wno-missing-field-initializers
> -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wno-write-strings -gdwarf-2 -g2 -O3
> -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -DGNUC -DPOSIX -D_OSX -DOSX -Ifoo -c foo.cpp
> -o foo.o
>
> which produces warnings like this:
> clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-c'
> clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-I/usr/include/malloc'
> clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-isysroot
> /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk'
> clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-DNDEBUG'
> clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-DGNUC'
> clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-DPOSIX'
> clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-D_OSX'
> clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-DOSX'
> clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-Ifoo'
>
> etc.  This is apparently local to something that ccache is doing: it must
> be running clang multiple times, one with some funny options.  The user was
> alarmed because he didn't think that clang had implemented such exotic
> options as -D and -I :) due to these warnings.
>
> The question is: is this a ccache bug, or should we hack clang somehow to
> work better with ccache?  I don't use ccache or know anything about it, so I
> don't really have an opinion here.
>
> -Chris
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