Story: Hotfix: Continuous Linux gcc jobs red on further gcc-only diagnostics
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This page documents a story in Sprint 25. It captures the goal, current status, acceptance criteria, and the tasks that compose it.
1. Goal
The Continuous Linux gcc jobs compile the whole tree again. Every remaining gcc-only diagnostic is fixed, so the jobs no longer stop on a warning that gcc treats as an error. The Nightly Include Hygiene job pushes its bot branch again, so no CI job stays red on Linux.
2. Status
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| State | DONE |
| Parent sprint | Sprint 25 |
| Now | Nothing. |
| Waiting on | Nothing. |
| Next | Nothing. |
| Last touched | 2026-09-15 |
3. Acceptance
- The local gcc sweep build reports no diagnostic.
- The Continuous Linux gcc debug and release jobs build the whole tree.
- The Windows and MacOS jobs stay green.
- The Nightly Include Hygiene job reaches its pull-request step.
4. Tasks
| Task | State | Start | End | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scaffold story: Hotfix: Continuous Linux gcc jobs red on further gcc-only diagnostics | DONE | 2026-09-15 | 2026-09-15 | Story scaffolding rides this task: documents, sprint wiring, and the scaffold PR. Close it before merging that PR. |
| Fix every remaining gcc-only diagnostic in the tree | DONE | 2026-09-15 | 2026-09-15 | Sweep the whole tree with gcc and fix every diagnostic that only gcc reports. |
| Fix the nightly include-hygiene bot push rejection | DONE | 2026-09-15 | 2026-09-15 | The Nightly Include Hygiene job fails when its bot PR step stages the whole workspace, so the LLVM install and the vcpkg cache ride into the commit and GitHub rejects the push for files over its 100 MB limit. |
5. Decisions
- The Continuous Linux workflows carry no
pull_requesttrigger, so a PR on this branch carries no build check of its own. The gcc fix is therefore observed on the next scheduled run after merge, and the PR says so instead of implying a pre-merge gate. - The include-hygiene fix pins
add-pathstoprojects/rather than moving the LLVM install or the vcpkg cache out of the checkout. Those paths are shared with every other workflow, so moving them would widen the blast radius of a one-line defect. - The
build/entries incompile_commands.jsonare generated by CMake and must not enter a commit. Theadd-pathspin keeps them out.
6. Out of scope
7. Result
Two defects are fixed on
hotfix/ci-builds-red-gcc-test-tree-warnings-hotfix.
feed_controller_tests.cpp no longer binds a const std::string& to a
braced list of string literals, which is the -Wrange-loop-construct
diagnostic that stopped the gcc release job at edge 3893 of 4449.
nightly-includes.yml now passes add-paths to the pull-request
action, so the bot commit holds projects/ and the 226 MB LLVM shared
object can no longer be staged.
Acceptance is met in part and the gaps are known. The changed translation unit compiles clean under both the debug and the release gcc flags. The wider sweeps did not finish, and the Continuous Linux and Nightly Include Hygiene jobs cannot be observed until their next scheduled runs. Both gaps are recorded in the PR's Limitations.