RE: [PATCH] perf: fix -Wstring-compare

[David Laight]

From: Ian Rogers
> Sent: 24 February 2020 05:56
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 11:35 AM Nick Desaulniers
> <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Clang warns:
> >
> > util/block-info.c:298:18: error: result of comparison against a string
> > literal is unspecified (use an explicit string comparison function
> > instead) [-Werror,-Wstring-compare]
> >         if ((start_line != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN) && (end_line != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN)) {
> >                         ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > util/block-info.c:298:51: error: result of comparison against a string
> > literal is unspecified (use an explicit string comparison function
> > instead) [-Werror,-Wstring-compare]
> >         if ((start_line != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN) && (end_line != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN)) {
> >                                                          ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > util/block-info.c:298:18: error: result of comparison against a string
> > literal is unspecified (use an explicit string
> > comparison function instead) [-Werror,-Wstring-compare]
> >         if ((start_line != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN) && (end_line != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN)) {
> >                         ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > util/block-info.c:298:51: error: result of comparison against a string
> > literal is unspecified (use an explicit string comparison function
> > instead) [-Werror,-Wstring-compare]
> >         if ((start_line != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN) && (end_line != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN)) {
> >                                                          ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > util/map.c:434:15: error: result of comparison against a string literal
> > is unspecified (use an explicit string comparison function instead)
> > [-Werror,-Wstring-compare]
> >                 if (srcline != SRCLINE_UNKNOWN)
> >                             ^  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/900
> > Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Note: was generated off of mainline; can rebase on -next if it doesn't
> > apply cleanly.
> 
> Looks good to me. Some more context:
> https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wstring-compare
> The spec says:
> J.1 Unspecified behavior
> The following are unspecified:
> .. Whether two string literals result in distinct arrays (6.4.5).

Just change the (probable):
#define SRCLINE_UNKNOWN "unknown"
with
static const char SRC_LINE_UNKNOWN[] = "unk";

	David

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