RE: [PATCH] block/blk-iocost (gcc13): cast enum members to int in prints

From: David Laight
Date: Tue Dec 13 2022 - 07:58:21 EST


From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: 13 December 2022 12:05
>
> On 13. 12. 22, 12:50, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Jiri Slaby
> >> Sent: 13 December 2022 11:15
> >>
...
> >>>> Oh man, it's kinda crazy that the compiler is changing in a way that the
> >>>> same piece of code can't be compiled the same way across two adjoining
> >>>> versions of the same compiler. But, yeah, if that's what gcc is gonna do and
> >>>> splitting enums is the only way to be okay across the compiler versions,
> >>>> there isn't any other choice we can make.
> >>>
> >>> It is also a silent code-breaker.
> >>> Compile this for 32bit x86:
> >>>
> >>> enum { a = 1, b = ~0ull};
> >>
> >> But having ull in an enum is undefined anyway. C99 allows only int
> >> constants. gnuC supports ulong expressions (IIRC).
> >
> > gcc supports 'long long' as well - 64bit on 32bit systems.
>
> Can you elaborate what's source of this? ...

Experimentation, for example:

https://godbolt.org/z/n4rnc7cKG


David

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