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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
	Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>,
	Linux Regressions <regressions@lists.linux.dev>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	clang-built-linux <llvm@lists.linux.dev>,
	Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>,
	open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkft-triage@lists.linaro.org,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@kernel.org>,
	Jeff Xu <jeffxu@chromium.org>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: powerpc: io-defs.h:43:1: error: performing pointer arithmetic on a null pointer has undefined behavior [-Werror,-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic]
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 05:38:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240416103819.GQ19790@gate.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+G9fYtEh8zmq8k8wE-8RZwW-Qr927RLTn+KqGnq1F=ptaaNsA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 03:02:52PM +0530, Naresh Kamboju wrote:
> In file included from arch/powerpc/include/asm/io.h:672:
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/io-defs.h:43:1: error: performing pointer
> arithmetic on a null pointer has undefined behavior
> [-Werror,-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic]

It is not UB, but just undefined: the program is meaningless.

It is not a null pointer but even a null pointer constant here.  It
matters in places, including here.

It would help if the warnings were more correct :-(


Segher

  reply	other threads:[~2024-04-16 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-16  9:32 powerpc: io-defs.h:43:1: error: performing pointer arithmetic on a null pointer has undefined behavior [-Werror,-Wnull-pointer-arithmetic] Naresh Kamboju
2024-04-16 10:38 ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2024-04-16 11:09   ` David Laight
2024-04-16 11:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-04-16 11:55   ` Arnd Bergmann
2024-04-16 12:42     ` Dan Carpenter
2024-04-16 12:44       ` Arnd Bergmann

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