From: David Laight
> Sent: 24 March 2021 09:12
>
> From: Martin Sebor
> > Sent: 22 March 2021 22:08
> ...
> > In GCC 11, all access warnings expect objects to be either declared
> > or allocated. Pointers with constant values are taken to point to
> > nothing valid (as Arnd mentioned above, this
From: Martin Sebor
> Sent: 22 March 2021 22:08
...
> In GCC 11, all access warnings expect objects to be either declared
> or allocated. Pointers with constant values are taken to point to
> nothing valid (as Arnd mentioned above, this is to detect invalid
> accesses to members of structs at addre
* Martin Sebor wrote:
> > I.e. the real workaround might be to turn off the
> > -Wstringop-overread-warning,
> > until GCC-11 gets fixed?
>
> In GCC 10 -Wstringop-overread is a subset of -Wstringop-overflow.
> GCC 11 breaks it out as a separate warning to make it easier to
> control. Both wa
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:09 PM Martin Sebor wrote:
> On 3/22/21 2:29 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > I.e. the real workaround might be to turn off the
> > -Wstringop-overread-warning,
> > until GCC-11 gets fixed?
>
> In GCC 10 -Wstringop-overread is a subset of -Wstri
On 3/22/21 2:29 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Arnd Bergmann wrote:
From: Arnd Bergmann
gcc-11 warns about using string operations on pointers that are
defined at compile time as offsets from a NULL pointer. Unfortunately
that also happens on the result of fix_to_virt(), which is a
compile-time c
On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:29 PM Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > From: Arnd Bergmann
> This is indeed rather ugly - and the other patch that removes a debug
> check seems counterproductive as well.
>
> Do we know how many genuine bugs -Wstringop-overread-warning has
> caught or i
* Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann
>
> gcc-11 warns about using string operations on pointers that are
> defined at compile time as offsets from a NULL pointer. Unfortunately
> that also happens on the result of fix_to_virt(), which is a
> compile-time constant for a constantn input
