[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal/stack: fix 'pointer-sign' warning

[Phil Yang (Arm Technology China)]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eads, Gage <gage.eads at intel.com>
> Sent: Saturday, June 15, 2019 3:50 AM
> To: Phil Yang (Arm Technology China) <Phil.Yang at arm.com>; dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: nd <nd at arm.com>; Honnappa Nagarahalli
> <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com>; Gavin Hu (Arm Technology China)
> <Gavin.Hu at arm.com>
> Subject: RE: [PATCH] eal/stack: fix 'pointer-sign' warning
> 
> > clang raise 'pointer-sign' warnings in __atomic_compare_exchange when
> > passing 'uint64_t *' to parameter of type 'int64_t *' converts between
> > pointers to integer types with different sign.
> >
> > Fixes: 7e6e609939a8 ("stack: add C11 atomic implementation")
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Phil Yang <phil.yang at arm.com>
> > Reviewed-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli at arm.com>
> >
> > ---
> >  lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h
> > b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h
> > index a316e9a..e3b9eff 100644
> > --- a/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h
> > +++ b/lib/librte_stack/rte_stack_lf_c11.h
> > @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ __rte_stack_lf_pop_elems(struct rte_stack_lf_list
> *list,
> >  	return NULL;
> >  #else
> >  	struct rte_stack_lf_head old_head;
> > -	uint64_t len;
> > +	int64_t len;
> 
> This works, but I'd prefer to keep 'len' unsigned. How about changing the
> definition of 'len' in struct rte_stack_lf_list to uint64_t, and in
> rte_stack_lf_generic.h casting it to rte_atomic64_t* when its address is
> passed to the rte_atomic64_...() functions?

It is better I think. I have upstreamed the v2, please review it. 

Thanks,
Phil