glib: enforce the minimum required version and warn about old APIs

There are two useful macros that can be defined before including
glib.h that are related to the min required glib version

 - GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED

   When this is defined, if code uses an API that was deprecated
   in this version, or older, a compiler warning will be emitted.
   This alerts maintainers to update their code to whatever new
   replacement API is now recommended best practice.

 - GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED

   When this is defined, if code uses an API that was introduced
   in a version that is newer than the declared version, a compiler
   warning will be emitted. This alerts maintainers if new code
   accidentally uses functionality that won't be available on some
   supported platforms.

The GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED constant makes it a bit harder to opt
in to using specific new APIs with a GLIB_CHECK_VERSION conditional.
To workaround this Pragmas can be used to temporarily turn off the
-Wdeprecated-declarations compiler warning, while a static inline
compat function is implemented. This workaround is illustrated with the
implementation of the g_strv_contains method to satisfy the test suite.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 68 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/glib-compat.h b/include/glib-compat.h
index 3b340ab33c..fdf95a255d 100644
--- a/include/glib-compat.h
+++ b/include/glib-compat.h
@@ -16,8 +16,74 @@
 #ifndef QEMU_GLIB_COMPAT_H
 #define QEMU_GLIB_COMPAT_H
 
+/* Ask for warnings for anything that was marked deprecated in
+ * the defined version, or before. It is a candidate for rewrite.
+ */
+#define GLIB_VERSION_MIN_REQUIRED GLIB_VERSION_2_40
+
+/* Ask for warnings if code tries to use function that did not
+ * exist in the defined version. These risk breaking builds
+ */
+#define GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED GLIB_VERSION_2_40
+
+#pragma GCC diagnostic push
+#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wdeprecated-declarations"
+
 #include <glib.h>
 
+/*
+ * Note that because of the GLIB_VERSION_MAX_ALLOWED constant above, allowing
+ * use of functions from newer GLib via this compat header needs a little
+ * trickery to prevent warnings being emitted.
+ *
+ * Consider a function from newer glib-X.Y that we want to use
+ *
+ *    int g_foo(const char *wibble)
+ *
+ * We must define a static inline function with the same signature that does
+ * what we need, but with a "_qemu" suffix e.g.
+ *
+ * static inline void g_foo_qemu(const char *wibble)
+ * {
+ *     #if GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(X, Y, 0)
+ *        g_foo(wibble)
+ *     #else
+ *        g_something_equivalent_in_older_glib(wibble);
+ *     #endif
+ * }
+ *
+ * The #pragma at the top of this file turns off -Wdeprecated-declarations,
+ * ensuring this wrapper function impl doesn't trigger the compiler warning
+ * about using too new glib APIs. Finally we can do
+ *
+ *   #define g_foo(a) g_foo_qemu(a)
+ *
+ * So now the code elsewhere in QEMU, which *does* have the
+ * -Wdeprecated-declarations warning active, can call g_foo(...) as normal,
+ * without generating warnings.
+ */
+
+static inline gboolean g_strv_contains_qemu(const gchar *const *strv,
+                                            const gchar *str)
+{
+#if GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2, 44, 0)
+    return g_strv_contains(strv, str);
+#else
+    g_return_val_if_fail(strv != NULL, FALSE);
+    g_return_val_if_fail(str != NULL, FALSE);
+
+    for (; *strv != NULL; strv++) {
+        if (g_str_equal(str, *strv)) {
+            return TRUE;
+        }
+    }
+
+    return FALSE;
+#endif
+}
+#define g_strv_contains(a, b) g_strv_contains_qemu(a, b)
+
+
 #if defined(_WIN32) && !GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2, 50, 0)
 /*
  * g_poll has a problem on Windows when using
@@ -45,4 +111,6 @@ gint g_poll_fixed(GPollFD *fds, guint nfds, gint timeout);
     } while (0)
 #endif
 
+#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
+
 #endif
diff --git a/tests/test-qga.c b/tests/test-qga.c
index 18e63cb533..30c9643257 100644
--- a/tests/test-qga.c
+++ b/tests/test-qga.c
@@ -744,12 +744,10 @@ static void test_qga_config(gconstpointer data)
 
     strv = g_key_file_get_string_list(kf, "general", "blacklist", &n, &error);
     g_assert_cmpint(n, ==, 2);
-#if GLIB_CHECK_VERSION(2, 44, 0)
     g_assert_true(g_strv_contains((const char * const *)strv,
                                   "guest-ping"));
     g_assert_true(g_strv_contains((const char * const *)strv,
                                   "guest-get-time"));
-#endif
     g_assert_no_error(error);
     g_strfreev(strv);