Re: CHECKPATCH: strange warning on alignment modifier

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 10:56 +0300, Igor Stoppa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the following fragment of code:
> 
> +struct my_struct {
> +       atomic_long_t l __aligned(sizeof(atomic_long_t));
> +} __aligned(sizeof(atomic_long_t));
> 
> 
> triggering this warning, when fed to checkpatch.pl:
> 
> WARNING: function definition argument 'atomic_long_t' should also have 
> an identifier name
> #19: FILE: path/to/file.h
> +	atomic_long_t l __aligned(sizeof(atomic_long_t));
> 
> 
> gcc [(Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0] seems to be happy about it
> 
> I am using the HEAD from mainline.
> 
> My intent is to specify the alignment of both the field and the 
> structure (yes, probably redundant in this single-field case).
> 
> If I am doing something wrong, I can't figure out what it is, but I 
> don't understand why the WARNING is mentioning a function definition.

It's a defect in checkpatch.
For now, just ignore the message.
I will work on it later.