From: "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@user.it.uu.se>
Cc: Linux Kernel ML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6.6-rc3] gcc-3.4.0 fixes
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 11:30:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4090CB31.6090300@softhome.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1PX8S-5z2-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> This patch fixes three warnings from gcc-3.4.0 in 2.6.6-rc3:
> - drivers/char/ftape/: use of cast-as-lvalue
> if (get_unaligned((__u32*)ptr)) {
> - ++(__u32*)ptr;
> + ptr += sizeof(__u32);
> } else {
Can anyone explain what is the problem with this?
To me it seems pretty ligitimate code - why it was outlawed in gcc 3.4?
Previous code was agnostic to type of ptr, but you code presume ptr
being char pointer (to effectively increment by 4 bytes).
So what all this buzz about?
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-29 9:30 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <1PX8S-5z2-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-29 9:30 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau [this message]
2004-04-29 20:46 ` [PATCH][2.6.6-rc3] gcc-3.4.0 fixes Paul Wagland
2004-04-29 20:54 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-04-29 21:35 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2004-04-29 21:46 Mikael Pettersson
2004-05-17 0:58 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-06-01 14:52 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-01 15:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-01 15:35 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-01 15:38 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-06-01 17:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-06-01 17:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-06-01 21:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-06-01 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-06-01 19:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2004-07-16 4:28 ` H. Peter Anvin
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2004-04-28 13:07 Mikael Pettersson
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