Re: [RFC][PATCH] Update -Wattribute-alias for gcc9

[Miguel Ojeda]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:58 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 25, 2019 at 11:43 AM Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Commit bee20031772a ("disable -Wattribute-alias warning for
> > SYSCALL_DEFINEx()") disabled -Wattribute-alias with gcc8.
> > gcc9 changed the format of -Wattribute-alias to take a parameter.
> > This doesn't quite match with the existing disabling mechanism
> > so update for gcc9 to match with the default (-Wattribute-alias=1).
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > This is RFC because it feels ugly. I went ahead and did the obvious fixup
> > but it's worth discussing if we're going to end up with an explosion or
> > if there's a better way to handle this in one macro.
>
> Bernd Edlinger has sent a patch to gcc for this:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-01/msg01120.html
>
> and Miguel Ojeda said he wanted to send a patch for it to the
> kernel as well, not sure if he wanted to take a different
> approach there, so adding both to Cc here.

Thanks Arnd (I was working with Martin on the expanded
-Wmissing-attribute warnings, not on this, but thanks nevertheless :).

Martin/Bernd: from the GCC mailing list I am not sure if we should
expect the old behavior to be maintained or not.

Cheers,
Miguel