Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] xbzrle: fix compilation on ppc32

[Eric Blake]

On 08/14/2012 04:55 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> When compiling the xbzrle code on my ppc32 user space, I hit the following
> gcc compiler warning (treated as an error):
> 
>   cc1: warnings being treated as errors
>   savevm.c: In function ‘xbzrle_encode_buffer’:
>   savevm.c:2476: error: overflow in implicit constant conversion
> 
> Fix this by making the cast explicit, rather than implicit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <address@hidden>
> ---
>  savevm.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

> 
> diff --git a/savevm.c b/savevm.c
> index 0ea10c9..9ab4d83 100644
> --- a/savevm.c
> +++ b/savevm.c
> @@ -2473,7 +2473,7 @@ int xbzrle_encode_buffer(uint8_t *old_buf, uint8_t 
> *new_buf, int slen,
>          /* word at a time for speed, use of 32-bit long okay */
>          if (!res) {
>              /* truncation to 32-bit long okay */
> -            long mask = 0x0101010101010101ULL;
> +            long mask = (long)0x0101010101010101ULL;

What a picky compiler - too bad it can't just read the comment above
that said we are okay with truncation :)

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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