Node: NodeJs v8.0.0-v8.1.0, C4716: 'v8::ArrayBuffer::Allocator::Reserve': must return a value

[prepare]

Do you forget to return the value ?

C4716: 'v8::ArrayBuffer::Allocator::Reserve': must return a value

nodejs
version v8.0.0
build from source (TODAY) from main web page (https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/)
platform: build with VS2015, x64, Win7

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In main source from webpage.
This file, dep/v8/src/api.cc

this method (1) should return 'something' (2), it is not void.
so VS2015-> compile error -> semantic check error.

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I compare the source from the original main web (3) (https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/deps/v8/src/api.cc#L440)
and the source on github. It has a little diff.

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[addaleax]

UNIMPLEMENTED() just crashes, there’s no point in returning anything; can you show the actual error that you get from compiling?

[prepare]

This is the only one error when I build it.

[prepare]

To pass that, I fix it by adding return nullptr;

[joaocgreis]

I confirm this happens in debug builds.

[prepare]

Still not fixed in NodeJS v 8.1.0 (main source from webpage)

[aqrln]

As far as I understand, this is an issue with V8 sources, and thus should be reported in their issue tracker, shouldn't it?

[prepare]

@aqrln,

But the error is 'included' in nodejs's official source snapshot from nodejs's main page.

I think we should patch it before release to other node users (that build from src).

for me, I'm not hurry :)

But I've never see this (err) before in the official node source.

:)

[gibfahn]

But the error is 'included' in nodejs's official source snapshot from nodejs's main page.

We take everything in deps/ from the maintainers of those projects, and we try not to float patches unless necessary. So in this case nodejs/node deps/v8/src/api.cc#L436 corresponds to v8/v8 src/api.cc#L452.

So assuming that this is a V8 issue (and that it's not something special we're doing in Node) the way to get it fixed is to raise it upstream.

[addaleax]

As far as I understand, this is an issue with V8 sources, and thus should be reported in their issue tracker, shouldn't it?

Just so you know, this is a temporary situation; these methods will become pure virtual at some point in the (possibly near) future.

Anyway, here’s an upstream patch: https://codereview.chromium.org/2929993003/

[bzoz]

It happens only in Debug builds because in Release it is suppressed by whole program optimization. When building V8 by itself function level linking is enabled and it also suppress this.

[TimothyGu]

Adding the exact error message so the issue is searchable: C4716: 'v8::ArrayBuffer::Allocator::Reserve': must return a value

[bzoz]

Fixed in https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/a0f8faa3a4858a1540172a7e215c4ed62f8ecfc8