[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] windows: build warnings with clang

[Nick Connolly]

Copying stable at dpdk.org - given that 20.11 has now been released I 
assume this needs to be applied there as well.

On 07/12/2020 20:34, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 03/12/2020 01:02, Dmitry Kozlyuk:
>> On Sun, 29 Nov 2020 16:00:24 +0000, Nick Connolly wrote:
>>> Microsoft CRT defines Windows-specific secure alternatives to
>>> standard library functions and triggers warnings when "insecure"
>>> functions are used [1]. However, calling code already has all
>>> necessary checks around those functions, so these warnings are not
>>> useful for DPDK. MinGW provides its own CRT without this issue.
>>>
>>> [1]:
>>> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/c-runtime-library/security-features-in-the-crt?view=msvc-160
>>>
>>> Disable this by defining -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Nick Connolly <nick.connolly at mayadata.io>
>>> ---
>>> v2:
>>> * Adjust commit wording as per Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
>>>
>>> Note: It is unclear exactly which commit this fixes.  It is probably a
>>> consequence of building more libraries for Windows.
>> Acked-by: Dmitry Kozlyuk <dmitry.kozliuk at gmail.com>
> Applied, thanks
>
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