From: Kenneth Johansson <kenneth@southpole.se>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:40:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1248453626.8967.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090723190647.7EB9D832E416@gemini.denx.de>
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 21:06 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Kumar Gala,
>
> In message <1247495041-8605-3-git-send-email-galak@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote:
> > The version of dlmalloc we are using generates a fair number of warnings
> > of the following form:
> >
> > warning: dereferencing pointer '({anonymous})' does break strict-aliasing rules
> >
> > Trying to fix these is just paper taping over the issue and we really
> > just need to look into a new malloc implementation. So we disable these
> > particular warning checks for dlmalloc.c only.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
>
> Well, if you think fixing the problems is "paper taping over the
> issue", then how do you call NOT fixing the problems and shutting off
> the warnings?
Well he removed the optimization so the problem is no longer a problem.
It's the description of what was done that is wrong.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-24 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-13 14:23 [U-Boot] [PATCH] drivers/bios_emulator: Fix gcc 4.4 compiler warning Kumar Gala
2009-07-13 14:24 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] ahci: " Kumar Gala
2009-07-13 14:24 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings Kumar Gala
2009-07-23 2:05 ` [U-Boot] gcc4.4 warning fix patches Kumar Gala
2009-07-23 19:06 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-24 16:40 ` Kenneth Johansson [this message]
2009-07-26 21:26 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-28 22:52 ` Scott Wood
2009-07-29 5:47 ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-29 5:55 ` Kumar Gala
2009-07-29 12:53 ` Kenneth Johansson
2009-08-07 0:14 ` Kumar Gala
2009-07-23 19:05 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] ahci: Fix gcc 4.4 compiler warning Wolfgang Denk
2009-07-23 19:03 ` [U-Boot] [PATCH] drivers/bios_emulator: " Wolfgang Denk
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