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Split `point_types.hpp` part into `field_traits.(h|hpp)`

Open sumir0 opened this issue 1 month ago • 8 comments

  • Move (H|h)as_ traits from point_types.hpp into field_traits.(h|hpp)
  • Add field_traits.h include where field traits are used
  • Change a MSVC compiler warning reset via #pragma warning((push|pop))
  • Add field_traits.h include in point_types.h for backward compatibility
  • Remove unnecessary pcl/point_types.h includes in some files
  • Add missing pcl/point_types.h includes in some files
  • Add missing cstring include in pcl/common/impl/copy_point.hpp

sumir0 avatar Nov 29 '25 06:11 sumir0

Also may fix https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/issues/5040

sumir0 avatar Nov 29 '25 06:11 sumir0

Based on https://github.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/pull/6367

sumir0 avatar Nov 29 '25 06:11 sumir0

I will try to build manually with PCL_OPTIMIZE_IMPORTS_FIELD_TRAITS. Maybe additional pipelines can be considered.


Edit: Compilation finished successfully.

sumir0 avatar Nov 29 '25 06:11 sumir0

For a moment I thought I was going under some water here... Phew, it was close! Excuse me for informality. As the pipelines are passing it seems that we are good to go (or maybe not, because there are still some files for which it would be nice to add missing includes, but they can be added in other PRs, possibly)

sumir0 avatar Dec 04 '25 21:12 sumir0

I tried it on windows yesterday and noticed a lot of: no suitable definition provided for explicit template instantiation request.

See windows ci: https://dev.azure.com/PointCloudLibrary/pcl/_build/results?buildId=25918&view=logs&j=b7dd6ba8-1ad9-5018-2280-3f36c72607c9&t=2fd7de77-c8c6-5479-ec09-1c18859bcc95&l=61

I haven't quite figured out why its not provided, but we should look into it before merging.

larshg avatar Dec 05 '25 06:12 larshg

Oh, nice catch! @larshg

As far as I understand these warnings were disabled by pcl/common/include/pcl/pcl_macros.h (link to the latest commit in master at the moment - search for "4661").

pcl/common/include/pcl/pcl_macros.h is included by pcl/common/include/pcl/impl/point_types.hpp which is included by pcl/common/include/pcl/point_types.h.

But pcl/common/include/pcl/pcl_macros.h is not included by pcl/common/include/pcl/field_traits.h.

Therefore, in the translation units where pcl/common/include/pcl/pcl_macros.h is not included (for example: where I replaced pcl/common/include/pcl/point_types.h with pcl/common/include/pcl/field_traits.h and pcl/common/include/pcl/pcl_macros.h did not get to be included) these warnings are not disabled.

sumir0 avatar Dec 05 '25 12:12 sumir0

Ahh, yes. And it doesn't seem to be worth looking into fixing that warning, so we just need to include pcl_macros.h accordingly?

larshg avatar Dec 05 '25 20:12 larshg

Hmm. Disabling warnings in a header file (without returning to the state before the disabling) will affect warnings in user code which includes (directly or transitively) that header. Would it not be better to disable project scope warnings using a build system (in our case CMake)?

sumir0 avatar Dec 08 '25 14:12 sumir0