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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] perf tools: Fix strict alias issue for find_first_bit
Em Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 10:29:23PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 06:25:51PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

> > The gcc documentation offers workaround for valid aliasing by using
> > __may_alias__ attribute:

> > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.4.0/gcc/Type-Attributes.html

> > Using this workaround for the find_first_bit function.

> Hurm; didn't I suggest using -fno-strict-aliasing just like the kernel
> does? Because the C aliasing rules are bonghits heavy?

Either way would solve the problem at hand, I just used the smaller
hammer offered.

I thought that Ingo had something against this, but only reference I
could find now about it was this:

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commit 65014ab36196f6d86edc9ee23759d6930b9d89a8
Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Wed Sep 2 14:55:55 2009 +0200

perf tools: Work around strict aliasing related warnings

Older versions of GCC are rather stupid about strict aliasing:

<SNIP>

Make it clear to GCC that we intend with those pointers, by passing
them through via an explicit (void *) cast.

We might want to add -fno-strict-aliasing as well, like the kernel
itself does.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jiri's bandaid is for _newer_ compilers, so...

- Arnaldo


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