[splint-discuss] glib header and empty #define's

[Jack T Mudge III]

Greetings!

This is my first message on this list. I've never used splint before 
(although I just finished perusing the manual somewhat, and the program 
appears enticing enough to be worth some work).

I'm developing a small program to help me organize my homework a bit, and 
thought I'd give splint a try with it. Created some source code that 
compiles and runs flawlessly, but can't get past the glib header file 
(parse error). I realize one option is to skip the header file alltogether, 
but splint complains about unknown identifiers, and dies when I try to 
treat an int (which was defined as a GString, but defaulted to int when 
splint didn't know what a GString was, apparently) as a struct, and try to 
dereference it.

I did some hunting, and I'm pretty sure I narrowed the problem down to this:

in /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h
/* Guard C code in headers, while including them from C++ */
#ifdef  __cplusplus
# define G_BEGIN_DECLS  extern "C" {
# define G_END_DECLS    }
#else
# define G_BEGIN_DECLS ;
# define G_END_DECLS ;
#endif

This file is included by every other header in the glib library, in this 
case specifically in /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gtypes.h (which I included 
in my source file). The point of this snippet seems to be to keep some 
declarations from causing problems for C++ compilers, which is fine. I 
generally don't use C++, so I'm not as familiar with some of these idioms. 

The definition G_BEGIN_DECLS and G_END_DECLS, then, should be "" in my 
source file -- __cplusplus is NOT defined. However, splint feeds me this 
error instead of skipping over it (since a blank definition does nothing):

/usr/include/glib/gtypes.h:41:8: Parse Error: Non-function declaration:
    G_BEGIN_DECLS : int. (For help on parse errors, see splint -help
    parseerrors.)

I have tried adding #define G_BEGIN_DECLS ; to my source file, and splint 
complains about a duplicate definition (so apparently it's getting to the 
definition in the first place). Unfortunately, I'm out of ideas except for 
removing this code from my header files (since I'm not using C++, it 
shouldn't do any harm to do that, but it seems drastic to me).

Does anyone have some ideas as to how to get splint past these defines?
-- 
Sincerely,
Jack Mudge
jakykong at theanythingbox.com

My GPG Public Key can be found at:
https://www.theanythingbox.com/pgp.htm and Below.
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