Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp

[Nathan Chancellor]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2019 at 02:31:28PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 at 10:55:53PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 09:59:48AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > > From: Nathan Chancellor
> > > > Sent: 28 August 2019 19:45
> > > ...
> > > > However, I think that -fno-builtin-* would be appropriate here because
> > > > we are providing our own setjmp implementation, meaning clang should not
> > > > be trying to do anything with the builtin implementation like building a
> > > > declaration for it.
> > > 
> > > Isn't implementing setjmp impossible unless you tell the compiler that
> > > you function is 'setjmp-like' ?
> > 
> > No idea, PowerPC is the only architecture that does such a thing.
> 
> Since setjmp can return more than once, yes, exciting things can happen
> if you do not tell the compiler about this.
> 
> 
> Segher
> 

Fair enough so I guess we are back to just outright disabling the
warning.

Cheers,
Nathan