On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 12:04:33PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > Fix an aliasing issue causing a MIPS port build error: > > In file included from include/linux/srcu.h:34:0, > from include/linux/notifier.h:15, > from ./arch/mips/include/asm/uprobes.h:9, > from include/linux/uprobes.h:61, > from include/linux/mm_types.h:13, > from ./arch/mips/include/asm/vdso.h:14, > from arch/mips/vdso/vdso.h:27, > from arch/mips/vdso/gettimeofday.c:11: > include/linux/workqueue.h: In function 'work_static': > include/linux/workqueue.h:186:2: error: dereferencing type-punned pointer > will break strict-aliasing rules [-Werror=strict-aliasing] > return *work_data_bits(work) & WORK_STRUCT_STATIC; > ^
Umm... the kernel is built explicitly with -fno-strict-aliasing and it's not something individual archs can opt out. Thanks. -- tejun