Re: [PATCH] kbuild: add machine size to CHEKCFLAGS

[Andreas FÃrber]

Hi Luc,

The typo in the subject made me curious...

Am 30.05.2018 um 22:48 schrieb Luc Van Oostenryck:
> By default, sparse assumes a 64bit machine when compiled on x86-64
> and 32bit when compiled on anything else.
> 
> This can of course create all sort of problems for the other archs, like
> issuing false warnings ('shift too big (32) for type unsigned long'), or
> worse, failing to emit legitimate warnings.
> 
> Fix this by adding the -m32/-m64 flag, depending on CONFIG_64BIT,
> to CHECKFLAGS in the main Makefile (and so for all archs).
> Also, remove the now unneeded -m32/-m64 in arch specific Makefiles.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Makefile             | 3 +++
>  arch/alpha/Makefile  | 2 +-
>  arch/arm/Makefile    | 2 +-
>  arch/arm64/Makefile  | 2 +-
>  arch/ia64/Makefile   | 2 +-
>  arch/mips/Makefile   | 3 ---
>  arch/parisc/Makefile | 2 +-
>  arch/sparc/Makefile  | 2 +-
>  arch/x86/Makefile    | 2 +-
>  9 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

What about the architectures not touched by your patch that previously
had no -m32/-m64? (arc, c6x, h8300, hexagon, m68k, microblaze, nds32,
nios2, openrisc, powerpc, riscv, s390, sh, unicore32, xtensa)

You forgot to CC them on this patch.

Have you really checked that all their toolchains support the -m32/-m64
flags you newly introduce for them? Apart from non-biarch architectures,
I'm thinking of 31-bit s390 as a corner case where !64 != 32.

Regards,
Andreas

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