[dpdk-dev] RHEL7 failures

[Zhang, Qi Z]

Hi Ferruh, David and Aman:

	Sorry for late response due to PRC holiday.
	I have just tested the patch and there is no issue be detected for functions
	Thank you so much for the help!

Regards
Qi

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 5:46 AM
> To: Lincoln Lavoie <lylavoie at iol.unh.edu>; dev <dev at dpdk.org>; Yang, Qiming
> <qiming.yang at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> Cc: ci at dpdk.org; Aaron Conole <aconole at redhat.com>; dpdklab
> <dpdklab at iol.unh.edu>; Singh, Aman Deep <aman.deep.singh at intel.com>;
> David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] RHEL7 failures
> 
> On 10/5/2021 8:09 PM, Lincoln Lavoie wrote:
> > Hello Qiming and Qi,
> >
> > The CI is picking up failures when building on RHEL7, where warnings
> > are being treated as errors.  This looks like something has been
> > merged into the mainline, as it's failing across all patches.
> >
> > Here is the specific failure:
> >
> > ./drivers/net/ice/base/ice_parser_rt.c: In function '_hv_bit_sel':
> > ../drivers/net/ice/base/ice_parser_rt.c:201:2: error: dereferencing
> > type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
> > [-Werror=strict-aliasing]
> >    d64 = *(u64 *)&b[0];
> >    ^
> > ../drivers/net/ice/base/ice_parser_rt.c: In function '_reg_bit_sel':
> > ../drivers/net/ice/base/ice_parser_rt.c:458:2: error: dereferencing
> > type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
> > [-Werror=strict-aliasing]
> >    d32 = *(u32 *)&v[0];
> >    ^
> > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> >
> > You can download a full set of logs from here (for a failing run):
> > https://lab.dpdk.org/results/dashboard/patchsets/19162/
> >
> 
> Issue was reported by David, Aman sent the fix [1] and it is already merged by
> David [2], it should be fixed now, can you please double check?
> 
> [1]
> https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20211005115754.34117-1-aman
> .deep.singh at intel.com/
> 
> [2]
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=16b809d144dc2df7f31695b5abc64a809
> 021b154