On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 04:02:12PM -0700, Joe Stringer wrote:
> Clang 4.0 complains:
> 
> ../lib/odp-execute.c:61:37: error: taking address of packed member 'eth_dst' 
> of
> class or structure 'eth_header' may result in an unaligned pointer value
>       [-Werror,-Waddress-of-packed-member]
>             ether_addr_copy_masked(&eh->eth_src, key->eth_src, mask->eth_src);
>                                     ^~~~~~~~~~~
> ../lib/odp-execute.c:62:37: error: taking address of packed member 'eth_dst' 
> of
> class or structure 'eth_header' may result in an unaligned pointer value
>       [-Werror,-Waddress-of-packed-member]
>             ether_addr_copy_masked(&eh->eth_dst, key->eth_dst, mask->eth_dst);
> 
> Ethernet source addresses are 48 bits offset into the Ethernet header,
> so taking a pointer for this is not guaranteed to be valid on all
> architectures. Fix this by referencing the memory direct from the
> Ethernet header pointer.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]>

I don't understand--why does Clang think that there's something packed
here?  I don't see any packed annotation on struct eth_header (and I
don't think it needs one).
_______________________________________________
dev mailing list
[email protected]
https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev

Reply via email to