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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	thomas@monjalon.net, arybchenko@solarflare.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, radhika.chirra@ibm.com, stable@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] [PATCH v2] ethdev: missing typecast causes C++ build error
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:31:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51c69c8b-9b23-4c48-bf70-2f4881ce873b@intel.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190416163150.ZlpUu0hb8xwGChgnUqzojfVX1stONxaelD9LUTB7gH8@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1554932214-96522-1-git-send-email-drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 4/10/2019 10:36 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> The function eth_dev_pci_specific_init is missing a typecast to
> (struct rte_pci_device *) for the input argument bus_device.
> This causes build issues in the GNU C++ compiler.
> 
> [CXX]       g++ -o utils/pcap_handle.o -c utils/pcap_handle.cc -g3·
> -ggdb3 -mcpu=native -mtune=native -isystem·
> /home/rchirra/gen/io/ppc64include -std=gnu++11 -flax-vector-conversions·
> -Werror -isystem /home/rchirra/gen/io
> 
> In file included from drivers/pmd.cc:7:0:
> /home/rchirra/gen/io/deps/dpdk/build/include/rte_ethdev_pci.h:
> In function ‘int eth_dev_pci_specific_init(rte_eth_dev*, void*)’:
> /home/rchirra/gen/io/deps/dpdk/build/include/rte_ethdev_pci.h:75:35:·
> error: invalid conversion from ‘void*’ to ‘rte_pci_device*’
> [-fpermissive]
>   struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev = bus_device;
>                                    ^~~~~~~~~~
> make[1]: *** [drivers/pmd.o] Error 1
> 
> $ g++ --version
> g++ (Ubuntu 7.3.0-27ubuntu1~18.04) 7.3.0

This problem is while building a driver with c++ compiler, but since the
solution is a simple casting, which doesn't have any side affect, I am for
getting the patch, any objection?

> 
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Christensen <drc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Radhika Chirra <radhika.chirra@ibm.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Mmodified subject line to indicate a C++ compiler issue
> * Added error output from the compiler
> 
>  lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h
> index 23257e9..a325311 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_ethdev/rte_ethdev_pci.h
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@
>  
>  static inline int
>  eth_dev_pci_specific_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev, void *bus_device) {
> -	struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev = bus_device;
> +	struct rte_pci_device *pci_dev = (struct rte_pci_device *)bus_device;
>  
>  	if (!pci_dev)
>  		return -ENODEV;
> 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-16 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-10 20:16 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: missing typecast from void in eth_dev_pci_specific_init David Christensen
2019-04-10 20:16 ` David Christensen
2019-04-10 20:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-10 20:29   ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-10 20:58   ` David Christensen
2019-04-10 20:58     ` David Christensen
2019-04-10 21:14     ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-10 21:14       ` Thomas Monjalon
2019-04-12 17:13       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 17:13         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-10 21:00 ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-10 21:00   ` Bruce Richardson
2019-04-10 23:08   ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-10 23:08     ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-12 17:09     ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 17:09       ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 17:15       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2019-04-12 17:15         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2019-04-12 17:25         ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 17:25           ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 17:29           ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 17:29             ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-12 21:31             ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-12 21:31               ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-15 16:00               ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-15 16:00                 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-10 21:36 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] ethdev: missing typecast causes C++ build error David Christensen
2019-04-10 21:36   ` David Christensen
2019-04-16 16:31   ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2019-04-16 16:31     ` [dpdk-dev] [dpdk-stable] " Ferruh Yigit
2019-04-16 16:39     ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-04-16 16:39       ` Andrew Rybchenko
2019-04-16 16:46       ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2019-04-16 16:46         ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2019-04-16 21:19         ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-16 21:19           ` Stephen Hemminger
2019-04-16 21:50           ` David Christensen
2019-04-16 21:50             ` David Christensen

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