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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: christophe leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
Cc: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	Yisheng Xie <xieyisheng1@huawei.com>,
	Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>,
	linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc/xmon: avoid warnings about variables that might be clobbered by ‘longjmp’
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2018 14:47:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180623194716.GY16221@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b41b244e-78b8-c85f-9122-427ad04cccf8@c-s.fr>

On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 06:59:27PM +0200, christophe leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> Le 22/06/2018 à 21:27, Mathieu Malaterre a écrit :
> >Move initialization of variables after data definitions. This silence
> >warnings treated as error with W=1:
> >
> >   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:3389:14: error: variable ‘name’ might be 
> >   clobbered by ‘longjmp’ or ‘vfork’ [-Werror=clobbered]
> >   arch/powerpc/xmon/xmon.c:3100:22: error: variable ‘tsk’ might be 
> >   clobbered by ‘longjmp’ or ‘vfork’ [-Werror=clobbered]
> 
> Is that an invalid warning ?

No, both are correct warnings.  GCC can not see which functions it only
has a declaration of can call longjmp.

> Otherwise, I'd expect one to fix the warning, not just cheat on GCC.

Yes, the patch seems to change the code in such a way that some versions
of GCC will no longer warn.  Which does not make to code any more correct.

Either restructure the code, or make the var non-automatic, or make it
volatile.


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-23 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-22 19:27 [PATCH] powerpc/xmon: avoid warnings about variables that might be clobbered by ‘longjmp’ Mathieu Malaterre
2018-06-23 16:59 ` christophe leroy
2018-06-23 19:47   ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2018-06-26  6:27     ` Mathieu Malaterre

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