[Bioc-devel] R CMD check without WARNING: g++ and STL issue for xcms and mzR

Hi,

in preparation for the release, we are hunting down WARNINGS
"Found ?abort?, possibly from ?abort? (C)" in xcms/mzR.
The abort() call is not coming from XCMS, but rather
from the C++ code in the STL, and we have no idea
how to get rid of it.

We are tracking this in: https://github.com/sneumann/xcms/issues/150

In a nutshell, the standard tenplate library (STL) that comes
with g++-5.4.0 has a snippet:

https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/1cb6c2eb3b8361d850be8e8270c59727
0a1a7967/libstdc%2B%2B-v3/include/bits/stl_list.h#L1825

...
# 1770 "/usr/include/c++/5/bits/stl_list.h"
void _M_check_equal_allocators(list& __x) {
 if (_M_get_Node_allocator())
   __builtin_abort();
}

You can also check this by looking at the compiler output
after the preprocess step:

g++ -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG      -fpic  -g -O2 -fstack-
protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time
-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g  -c massifquant/TrMgr.cpp -E | less

The same applies to mzR, where the same stl_list.h is included
in two files (Found ?abort?, possibly from ?abort? (C)
    Objects: ?./boost/libs/regex/src/instances.o?,
      ?./boost/libs/regex/src/winstances.o?)

=> Since we don't want to patch the STL, we have no idea
   how to fix that WARNING. Is there a way to get an exception,
   or patch/whitelist this call in R CMD check ?

Yours,
Steffen Neumann