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

[Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>]

On Wed, 15 Jun 2022 16:59:51 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net> wrote:

> 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?
> 
> 

Yes will recollate based on current main branch.