Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Date | Tue, 5 May 2020 17:32:52 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] bitops: avoid clang shift-count-overflow warnings |
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On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 4:08 PM Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2020 at 4:58 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > Clang normally does not warn about certain issues in inline functions when > > it only happens in an eliminated code path. However if something else > > goes wrong, it does tend to complain about the definition of hweight_long() > > on 32-bit targets: > > Shouldn't it be fixed in CLang? > > > include/linux/bitops.h:75:41: error: shift count >= width of type [-Werror,-Wshift-count-overflow] > > return sizeof(w) == 4 ? hweight32(w) : hweight64(w); > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~ > > sizeof(w) is compile-time constant. It can easily drop the second part > without even looking at it. > > > Adding an explicit cast to __u64 avoids that warning and makes it easier > > to read other output. > > Looks like papering over the real issue.
I'm not sure if there is anything to be done about it in clang, since it always does syntactic analysis before dead-code elimination by design.
It is a bit odd though that it only prints the warning sometimes, but I suspect this is also something that works as designed. Maybe someone on the clang-built-linux list knows more about the background.
Arnd
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