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Message-ID: <20121122134342.GD17147@x1.alien8.de>
Date:	Thu, 22 Nov 2012 14:43:42 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 8/9] compiler.h, bug.h: Prevent double error messages
 with BUILD_BUG{,_ON}

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 03:05:06PM -0600, danielfsantos@....net wrote:
> Prior to the introduction of __attribute__((error("msg"))) in gcc 4.3,
> creating compile-time errors required a little trickery.
> BUILD_BUG{,_ON} uses this attribute when available to generate
> compile-time errors, but also uses the negative-sized array trick for
> older compilers, resulting in two error messages in some cases.  The
> reason it's "some" cases is that as of gcc 4.4, the negative-sized array
> will not create an error in some situations, like inline functions.
> 
> This patch replaces the negative-sized array code with the new
> __compiletime_error_fallback() macro which expands to the same thing
> unless the the error attribute is available, in which case it expands to
> do{}while(0), resulting in exactly one compile-time error on all
> versions of gcc.
> 
> Note that we are not changing the negative-sized array code for the
> unoptimized version of BUILD_BUG_ON, since it has the potential to catch
> problems that would be disabled in later versions of gcc were
> __compiletime_error_fallback used.  The reason is that that an
> unoptimized build can't always remove calls to an error-attributed
> function call (like we are using) that should effectively become dead
> code if it were optimized.  However, using a negative-sized array with a
> similar value will not result in an false-positive (error). The only
> caveat being that it will also fail to catch valid conditions, which we
> should be expecting in an unoptimized build anyway.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos <daniel.santos@...ox.com>

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
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