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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/11] Ide patches


From: John Snow
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/11] Ide patches
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:55:54 -0400
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On 09/20/2017 01:02 PM, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> On 18/09/17 19:14, Peter Maydell wrote:
> 
>> On 18 September 2017 at 19:00, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 18 September 2017 at 18:55, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On 09/16/2017 10:34 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>>> Hi; I'm afraid this doesn't build with clang:
>>>>>
>>>>> /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-for-merges/hw/ide/core.c:70:15: error:
>>>>> comparison of unsigned enum expression >= 0 is always true
>>>>> [-Werror,-Wtautological-compare]
>>>>>     if (enval >= 0 && enval < IDE_DMA__COUNT) {
>>>>>         ~~~~~ ^  ~
>>>>> 1 error generated
>>
>>
>>> I think you could argue that it would at least be helpful
>>> if clang didn't warn about comparisons that only happen
>>> to be useless for this particular platform/impdef choice
>>> but are useful for the same code compiled with a different
>>> compiler.
>>
>> A bit of googling and some experimentation reveals that
>> clang deliberately suppresses this warning in the special
>> case of comparing against an enum value which happens to
>> be zero (but not for literal constant zero!). So this will
>> be fine:
>>    if (enval >= IDE_DMA_READ && enval < IDE_DMA__COUNT)
>>
>> (or more sensibly you'd want to define an enum constant
>> for IDE_DMA__FIRST or something rather than relying on
>> READ being 0.)
>>
>> (found here:
>> http://clang-developers.42468.n3.nabble.com/Possibly-invalid-enum-tautology-warning-td3233140.html
>> )
> 
> Doing a git pull and even with the applied version of this patch I get a
> build failure on my local gcc-4.7:
> 
> cc -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu/hw/ide -Ihw/ide
> -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu/tcg
> -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu/tcg/i386
> -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu/linux-headers
> -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu/linux-headers -I.
> -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu
> -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu/accel/tcg
> -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1
> -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu/dtc/libfdt -Werror -pthread
> -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include
> -m64 -mcx16 -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wredundant-decls -Wall -Wundef -Wwrite-strings
> -Wmissing-prototypes -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fwrapv
> -Wendif-labels -Wno-missing-include-dirs -Wempty-body -Wnested-externs
> -Wformat-security -Wformat-y2k -Winit-self -Wignored-qualifiers
> -Wold-style-declaration -Wold-style-definition -Wtype-limits
> -fstack-protector-all -I/usr/include/p11-kit-1
> -I/usr/include/libpng12   -I/home/build/src/qemu/git/qemu/tests -MMD -MP
> -MT hw/ide/core.o -MF hw/ide/core.d -O2 -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE
> -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g   -c -o hw/ide/core.o hw/ide/core.c
> hw/ide/core.c: In function ‘IDE_DMA_CMD_str’:
> hw/ide/core.c:71:5: error: comparison of unsigned expression >= 0 is
> always true [-Werror=type-limits]
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> make: *** [hw/ide/core.o] Error 1
> 
> Are there any other workarounds for this at all?
> 
> 
> ATB,
> 
> Mark.
> 

Guh. From which distro does your GCC 4.7 hail?

Regardless, I suppose I will revert to Eric's workaround, though I like
the way it reads an awful lot less.

--js



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