Re: kisskb: FAILED linux-next/m68k-allmodconfig/m68k-gcc8 Tue Jan 25, 18:24

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 1:37 PM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 1:26 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I ran the preprocessed code through cvise[1], bisecting for a reduced
> > test case that fails on gcc-8 but succeeds on gcc-9. The reduced
> > case is still fairly complex, and it appears to only happen in the
> > presence of an inline asm. Narrowing down the compiler versions shows
> > that anything after gcc-9.2 does not warn, but 9.1 and earlier versions do,
> > which is further indication that  it was probably a false-positive that got
> > fixed in gcc.
>
> Thanks for investigating! So let's ignore this.
>
> FTR, my gcc-9 is 9.4.0, i.e. >= 9.2.

Ok, if it comes up again, I suppose we can make the warning conditional on
the compiler warning.

         Arnd