[dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH 0/4] fix warnings with gcc 9 on Fedora 30
David Marchand
david.marchand at redhat.com
Thu May 2 15:53:36 CEST 2019
On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 3:46 PM Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 03:32:20PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 3:24 PM Bruce Richardson
> > <[1]bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 02:32:41PM +0200, David Marchand wrote:
> > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:19 PM Thomas Monjalon
> > <[1][2]thomas at monjalon.net>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > 01/05/2019 21:50, Bruce Richardson:
> > > > This set of changes fixes warnings seen when compiling DPDK
> > on
> > > Fedora 30.
> > > > In most cases these warnings appear to be false positives,
> > which
> > > means we
> > > > have the option to just disable the warning. Because the
> > changes
> > > required
> > > > to the code to silence the warnings are fairly small I've
> > chosen
> > > in all cases
> > > > to change the code rather than disable the warnings, but
> > I'm open
> > > to doing
> > > > the opposite if it's felt it's a better solution. [One
> > thing I
> > > didn't like
> > > > about disabling the warnings is that the disabling flags
> > are not
> > > supported
> > > > by clang, so adding them involves compiler checks :-(]
> > > >
> > > > NOTE: this set does not cover all warnings with GCC9, but
> > it does
> > > cover
> > > > those seen when building with meson. There is still one
> > warning
> > > disable
> > > > flag needed when building with make, which will need a
> > follow-on
> > > set to
> > > > fix.
> > > >
> > > > Bruce Richardson (4):
> > > > net/ixgbe: fix warning with GCC 9 on Fedora 30
> > > > bus/fslmc: fix printf of null pointer
> > > > raw/skeleton_rawdev: fix warnings with GCC 9 on Fedora 30
> > > > raw/dpaa2_cmdif: fix warnings with GCC 9 on Fedora 30
> > > Cc: [2][3]stable at dpdk.org
> > > Applied, thanks
> > >
> > > I had a comment on patch 2, and the bigger problem is
> > > -Waddress-of-packed-member.
> > > The quicker solution for now is to downgrade it to warning only
> > so that
> > > we can fix the parts later rather than globally disable it.
> > > --
> > Well, it is already a warning, it's just that with make we build by
> > default
> > with -Werror when building from git.
> >
> > Err, why don't we have -Werror for meson ?
> >
>
> Because it's generally not a good idea to use -Werror by default. However,
> the test-meson-build script (which we should all be using for test
> compilation before upstreaming) sets it for all builds.
>
Yes ok, so that old releases still build on newer toolchains.
As for the test-meson-builds.sh and test-build.sh scripts, they are still
widely unknown except by maintainers.
But at least, the ci build script would catch the errors, since it
configures with "meson build --werror -Dexamples=all $OPTS"
--
David Marchand
More information about the dev
mailing list