Re: Rust kernel policy

[Martin Uecker]

Am Freitag, dem 21.02.2025 um 17:24 -0500 schrieb Steven Rostedt:
> On Fri, 21 Feb 2025 11:30:41 -0800
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > And yes, it's wrong in general. The problems with "x < 0" warning for
> > an unsigned 'x' are deep and fundamental, and macros that take various
> > types is only one (perhaps more obvious) example of how brokent that
> > garbage is.
> 
> The bug I recently fixed, and I still constantly make, where this does
> help, is the difference between size_t vs ssize_t. I keep forgetting that
> size_t is unsigned, and I'll check a return of a function that returns
> negative on error with it.
> 
> If I could just get a warning for this stupid mistake:
> 
> 	size_t ret;
> 
> 	ret = func();
> 	if (ret < 0)
> 		error();
> 
> 
> I'd be very happy.
> 

GCC has this warning, it is called -Wtype-limits

https://godbolt.org/z/M787vjhfo

It is activated by -Wextra.

(anyway, not at all related to my proposal)

Martin