RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3] vhost: fix build issues with GCC 12

[Amit Prakash Shukla <amitprakashs@marvell.com>]

Hi Maxime,

Compiled this patch with aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 12.2.0 and it compiles fine.

Thanks,
Amit Shukla

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> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
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> Hi Stephen,
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> On 10/6/22 02:01, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Wed,  5 Oct 2022 22:35:24 +0200
> > Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In practice, it would never happen since 'pkt->pkt_len' is unlikely
> >> to be close to UINT32_MAX, but let's just change 'size' to uint64_t
> >> to make the compiler happy without having to add runtime checks.
> >
> >
> > Would the standard typedef size_t work since that is what sizeof() returns.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure it would not create issues on 32 bits architectures build given
> size_t is 32bits in this case if I'm not mistaken, as it adds something to a u32,
> so it could wrap to 0.