[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Always compile with -fwrapv

[Peter Maydell]

QEMU's code relies on left shifts of signed integers always
being defined behaviour with the obvious 2s-complement
semantics. The only way to tell the compiler (and any
associated undefined-behaviour sanitizer) that we require a
C dialect with these semantics is to use the -fwrapv option.
This is a bit of a heavy hammer for the job as it also gives
us guaranteed semantics on integer arithmetic overflow which
in theory we don't require.

In an ideal world this would allow us to drop the warning
flag -Wno-shift-negative-value, but we must retain this to
avoid spurious warnings on clang versions predating the
fix to https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=25552.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
---
We agreed before 2.7 release that this was the best long term
approach to our shift issues, since it's now clear that both
clang and gcc do agree that -fwrapv provides the semantics we
want.

 configure | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 331c36f..14efce3 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -389,7 +389,11 @@ sdl2_config="${SDL2_CONFIG-${cross_prefix}sdl2-config}"
 ARFLAGS="${ARFLAGS-rv}"
 
 # default flags for all hosts
-QEMU_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common $QEMU_CFLAGS"
+# We use -fwrapv to tell the compiler that we require a C dialect where
+# left shift of signed integers is well defined and has the expected
+# 2s-complement style results. (Both clang and gcc agree that it
+# provides these semantics.)
+QEMU_CFLAGS="-fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fwrapv $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wall -Wundef -Wwrite-strings -Wmissing-prototypes $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls $QEMU_CFLAGS"
 QEMU_CFLAGS="-D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE 
$QEMU_CFLAGS"
-- 
2.7.4