Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the tip tree

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 07/18/2014 12:57 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> This particular warning is IMO in a particularly dumb category: GCC
> optimizes some code and then warns about a construct that wasn't there
> in the original code.  In this case, I think it unrolled a loop and
> discovered that one iteration contained a test that was always true.
> Big deal.
> 
> (OTOH, the code in question was buggy, but not all for the reason that
> GCC thought it was.)
> 

		if (syms[sym_vvar_start] > syms[i] + 4096)
			fail("%s underruns begin_vvar\n",
			     required_syms[i].name);

if i == sym_vvar_start then this is at least a valid warning.  It could
easily be quieted by chaning syms[] to an unsigned array.

	-hpa

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