Subject: Re: [PATCH v13 5/5] bugreport: add compiler info

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2021 00:23:52 +0200

On Thu, Apr 16 2020, Emily Shaffer wrote:

> To help pinpoint the source of a regression, it is useful to know some
> info about the compiler which the user's Git client was built with. By
> adding a generic get_compiler_info() in 'compat/' we can choose which
> relevant information to share per compiler; to get started, let's
> demonstrate the version of glibc if the user built with 'gcc'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Emily Shaffer <[email-masked]>
> Helped-by: Đoàn Trần Công Danh <[email-masked]>
> Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-bugreport.txt |  1 +
>  bugreport.c                     |  6 +++++
>  compat/compiler.h               | 41 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 compat/compiler.h
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt b/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt
> index 17b0d14e8d..643d1b2884 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-bugreport.txt
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ The following information is captured automatically:
>  
>   - 'git version --build-options'
>   - uname sysname, release, version, and machine strings
> + - Compiler-specific info string
>  
>  This tool is invoked via the typical Git setup process, which means that in some
>  cases, it might not be able to launch - for example, if a relevant config file
> diff --git a/bugreport.c b/bugreport.c
> index 1a3172bcec..089b939a87 100644
> --- a/bugreport.c
> +++ b/bugreport.c
> @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
>  #include "strbuf.h"
>  #include "time.h"
>  #include "help.h"
> +#include "compat/compiler.h"
>  
>  static void get_system_info(struct strbuf *sys_info)
>  {
> @@ -25,6 +26,11 @@ static void get_system_info(struct strbuf *sys_info)
>  			    uname_info.release,
>  			    uname_info.version,
>  			    uname_info.machine);
> +
> +	strbuf_addstr(sys_info, _("compiler info: "));
> +	get_compiler_info(sys_info);
> +	strbuf_addstr(sys_info, _("libc info: "));

These are marked with _() but not the "clang" etc. below. I'd think that
for a git-bugreport tool we'd be better off without any i18n.

> +	get_libc_info(sys_info);
>  }
>  
>  static const char * const bugreport_usage[] = {
> diff --git a/compat/compiler.h b/compat/compiler.h
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000000..10dbb65937
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/compat/compiler.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
> +#ifndef COMPILER_H
> +#define COMPILER_H
> +
> +#include "git-compat-util.h"
> +#include "strbuf.h"
> +
> +#ifdef __GLIBC__
> +#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
> +#endif
> +
> +static inline void get_compiler_info(struct strbuf *info)
> +{
> +	int len = info->len;
> +#ifdef __clang__
> +	strbuf_addf(info, "clang: %s\n", __clang_version__);
> +#elif defined(__GNUC__)
> +	strbuf_addf(info, "gnuc: %d.%d\n", __GNUC__, __GNUC_MINOR__);
> +#endif
> +
> +#ifdef _MSC_VER
> +	strbuf_addf(info, "MSVC version: %02d.%02d.%05d\n",
> +		    _MSC_VER / 100, _MSC_VER % 100, _MSC_FULL_VER % 100000);
> +#endif

Why the ifdef/elif/ifdef instead of ifdef/elif/elif? Isn't _MSC_VER
mutually exclusive with __clang__ and __GNUC__?