Messages in this thread | | | From | Masahiro Yamada <> | Date | Mon, 1 Apr 2019 10:04:34 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/17] kbuild: Disable -Waddress-of-packed-member for gcc 9 |
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Hi,
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 10:59 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:00 PM Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote: > > > > From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > > > This warning is very noisy in a default build with gcc 9. > > Move it into W=2 only. > > > > Cc: arnd@arndb.de > > Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> > > I think W=2 is too aggressive. On many architectures, this finds > real bugs and the false positives tend to be trivial to fix > (by removing the bogus __packed annotation), which improves > the generated code in the process. > > Moving it to W=1 for the moment is probably fine, but ideally > I think we should fix the kernel to behave according to the > C standard. > > Arnd
I agree to disable this warning option since we see a lot of instances.
The room of argument is W=1 or W=2? I do not have a strong opinion either way.
Arnd most actively takes care of warnings like this. If he looks into these warnings, W=1 is fine with me.
-- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
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