On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 12:23:31PM -0700, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 12:32 PM Josh Poimboeuf <jpoim...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2018 at 04:53:52PM +0000, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > > > (re-sending as plain text) > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:38 AM Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > > There are known-bugs with building a kernel with clang right now (I > > > > pointed one out a few days ago about NULL checks being deleted from the > > > > clang output for no good reason, which really is scary for obvious > > > > reasons). > > > > > > Is this the thread you are referring to? > > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/27/1286 > > > > > > It's definitely something curious that I'll need to sit down and > > > investigate more. If there are other known instances, it would be good to > > > let me know. > > > > As Matthias mentioned elsewhere, it sounds like they're planning to > > implement -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks, which would presumably fix > > the above issue. > > Just to follow this up, -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks is being added > to clang in: > https://reviews.llvm.org/D47894 > https://reviews.llvm.org/D47895
That's great news, thanks for letting us know. greg k-h