From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
Cc: "fengchengwen" <fengchengwen@huawei.com>,
"Ferruh Yigit" <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>,
"Dengdui Huang" <huangdengdui@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: Strict aliasing problem with rte_eth_linkstatus_set()
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:18:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240410141822.0fe8c10a@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9F391@smartserver.smartshare.dk>
On Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:54:27 +0200
Morten Brørup <mb@smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> > Please send a patch to replace alias with union.
>
> +1
>
> Fixing this specific bug would be good.
>
> Instinctively, I think we should build with -fno-strict-aliasing, so the compiler doesn't make the same mistake with similar code elsewhere in DPDK. I fear there is more than this instance.
> I also wonder if -Wstrict-aliasing could help us instead, if we don't want -fno-strict-aliasing.
Strict aliasing checks should be enabled already if you use warning_level 2
and default (debugoptimized) or release build types. Unless some part of DPDK
meson config is not overriding that.
https://mesonbuild.com/Builtin-options.html
Warning level 2 sets -Wall and -Wextra
From gcc man page
-Wstrict-aliasing
This option is only active when -fstrict-aliasing is active. It
warns about code that might break the strict aliasing rules that
the compiler is using for optimization. The warning does not catch
all cases, but does attempt to catch the more common pitfalls. It
is included in -Wall. It is equivalent to -Wstrict-aliasing=3
and
The -fstrict-aliasing option is enabled at levels -O2, -O3, -Os.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-10 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-10 9:33 fengchengwen
2024-04-10 10:30 ` Morten Brørup
2024-04-10 15:57 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-04-11 2:03 ` fengchengwen
2024-04-10 15:27 ` Stephen Hemminger
2024-04-10 15:58 ` Ferruh Yigit
2024-04-10 17:54 ` Morten Brørup
2024-04-10 19:58 ` Tyler Retzlaff
2024-04-11 3:20 ` fengchengwen
2024-04-10 21:18 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
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