On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 05:32:03PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> After b4f7793ce269, qemuxml2xmltest has apparently become big enough
> to trigger a compilation error on aarch64:
> 
>     CC       qemuxml2xmltest.o
>   qemuxml2xmltest.c: In function 'mymain':
>   qemuxml2xmltest.c:1216:1: error: const/copy propagation disabled: 4361 
> basic blocks and 99285 registers [-Werror=disabled-optimization]
>    }
>    ^
>   qemuxml2xmltest.c:1216:1: error: PRE disabled: 4361 basic blocks and 99285 
> registers [-Werror=disabled-optimization]
>   qemuxml2xmltest.c:1216:1: error: const/copy propagation disabled: 4361 
> basic blocks and 99285 registers [-Werror=disabled-optimization]
>   qemuxml2xmltest.c:1216:1: error: const/copy propagation disabled: 4361 
> basic blocks and 99285 registers [-Werror=disabled-optimization]
> 
> However, as the GCC documentation states, this warning is not really
> caused by issues in our code, so it makes sense to disable it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4 b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> index e8f135126..f18a08a8f 100644
> --- a/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> +++ b/m4/virt-compile-warnings.m4
> @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ AC_DEFUN([LIBVIRT_COMPILE_WARNINGS],[
>      # Several conditionals expand the same on both branches
>      # depending on the particular platform/architecture
>      dontwarn="$dontwarn -Wduplicated-branches"
> +    # > This warning does not generally indicate that there is anything wrong
> +    # > with your code; it merely indicates that GCC's optimizers are unable
> +    # > to handle the code effectively.
> +    # Source: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Warning-Options.html
> +    dontwarn="$dontwarn -Wdisabled-optimization"
>  
>      # gcc 4.2 treats attribute(format) as an implicit attribute(nonnull),
>      # which triggers spurious warnings for our usage

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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