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SubjectRe: New -Werror=restrict error with incremental gcc
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On 03/15/2018 08:11 PM, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:06:26AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
>> This only showed up with the very latest rawhide snapshot, .17 worked and
>> .18 started failing. I had to download .18 manually to test locally
>> https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=40
>
> I also see the error with the latest gcc master branch. The code is
> harmless, but maybe the warning is useful in other places, so here's one
> way to fix it.
>

Works for me, you can add

Tested-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>

> ----
>
> From: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] objtool, perf: Fix GCC 8 -Wrestrict error
>
> Starting with recent GCC 8 builds, objtool and perf fail to build with
> the following error:
>
> ../str_error_r.c: In function ‘str_error_r’:
> ../str_error_r.c:25:3: error: passing argument 1 to restrict-qualified parameter aliases with argument 5 [-Werror=restrict]
> snprintf(buf, buflen, "INTERNAL ERROR: strerror_r(%d, %p, %zd)=%d", errnum, buf, buflen, err);
>
> The code seems harmless, but there's probably no benefit in printing the
> 'buf' pointer in this situation anyway, so just remove it to make GCC
> happy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
> ---
> tools/lib/str_error_r.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/lib/str_error_r.c b/tools/lib/str_error_r.c
> index d6d65537b0d9..6aad8308a0ac 100644
> --- a/tools/lib/str_error_r.c
> +++ b/tools/lib/str_error_r.c
> @@ -22,6 +22,6 @@ char *str_error_r(int errnum, char *buf, size_t buflen)
> {
> int err = strerror_r(errnum, buf, buflen);
> if (err)
> - snprintf(buf, buflen, "INTERNAL ERROR: strerror_r(%d, %p, %zd)=%d", errnum, buf, buflen, err);
> + snprintf(buf, buflen, "INTERNAL ERROR: strerror_r(%d, [buf], %zd)=%d", errnum, buflen, err);
> return buf;
> }
>

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