Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] arch/sh: avoid spurious sizeof-pointer-div warning

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello!

On 1/23/23 21:05, Michael Karcher wrote:
> Gcc warns about the pattern sizeof(void*)/sizeof(void), as it looks like
> the abuse of a pattern to calculate the array size. This pattern appears
> in the unevaluated part of the ternary operator in _INTC_ARRAY if the
> parameter is NULL.
>
> The replacement uses an alternate approach to return 0 in case of NULL
> which does not generate the pattern sizeof(void*)/sizeof(void), but still
> emits the warning if _INTC_ARRAY is called with a nonarray parameter.
>
> This patch is required for successful compilation with -Werror enabled.
>
> The idea to use _Generic for type distinction is taken from Comment #7
> inhttps://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=108483  by Jakub Jelinek
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Karcher<kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> History:
> v5:
>    - Cleanly generated the patch
> v4:
>    - Put the case distinction into the numerator instead of the denominator
>    - Refactor the case disctinction into a second macro
> v3:
>    - I had a stern discussion with Thunderbird about not mangling the
>      space characters in my email, and I hope spaces get sent as standard
>      spaces now
> v2:
>    - improve title and remove mostly redundant first sentence of the
>      description
>    - adjust formatting of the _Generic construction
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/sh_intc.h b/include/linux/sh_intc.h
> index c255273b0281..37ad81058d6a 100644
> --- a/include/linux/sh_intc.h
> +++ b/include/linux/sh_intc.h
> @@ -97,7 +97,10 @@ struct intc_hw_desc {
>          unsigned int nr_subgroups;
>   };
>
> -#define _INTC_ARRAY(a) a, __same_type(a, NULL) ? 0 : sizeof(a)/sizeof(*a)
> +#define _INTC_SIZEOF_OR_ZERO(a) (_Generic(a,                 \
> +                                 typeof(NULL):  0,           \
> +                                 default:       sizeof(a)))
> +#define _INTC_ARRAY(a) a, _INTC_SIZEOF_OR_ZERO(a)/sizeof(*a)
>
>   #define INTC_HW_DESC(vectors, groups, mask_regs,       \
>                       prio_regs, sense_regs, ack_regs)   \

Can anyone suggest which tree to pick this up through until we have established a
new linux-sh tree?

Shall this go through Andrew's tree?

Adrian

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