Re: [PATCH 00/12] Fix compilation with gcc 12

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

15/06/2022 16:45, Stephen Hemminger:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 10:49:17 +0200
> David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 12:17 PM David Marchand
> > <david.marchand@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Fedora 36 is out since early may and comes with gcc 12.
> > > This series fixes compilation or waives some checks.
> > >
> > > There might be something fishy with rte_memcpy on x86 but, for now,
> > > the rte_memcpy related fixes are on the caller side.
> > >
> > > Some "base" drivers have issues, I chose the simple solution of waiving
> > > the checks for them.
> > >
> > > Compilation is the only thing checked.
> > > Please driver maintainers, check nothing got broken.  
> > 
> > I applied the patches that got acked and that had no objection or
> > comment from maintainers (i.e. patch 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11).
> > I also cleaned the mess in bugzilla where we had multiple reports of
> > the same issues, or stale bugs that I can't reproduce with released
> > gcc 12.
> > 
> > I'll respin separately the patches for which I have clear comments,
> > and drop my patches waiving the compiler checks.
> > 
> > We still need to agree on the best approach to handle the new checks.
> > We have two rfc series from Stephen, how do we move forward?
> 
> Lets fix all the bugs and remove any workarounds using pragma's.
> 
> Some of them may mean removing rte_memcpy where it is not needed.

What about your series Stephen?
Please would you like to respin?