linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] Fixes for compiling with clang

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Message-ID: <d419e823-8321-94d2-6f14-eac68e007eba@suse.com>
Date:   Fri, 2 Dec 2016 13:33:39 +0100
From:   Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
To:     Peter Foley <pefoley2@...oley.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        Behan Webster <behanw@...verseincode.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] Fixes for compiling with clang

On 2016-12-01 19:13, Peter Foley wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 6:22 AM, Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com> wrote:
>> Dne 28.11.2016 v 07:44 Peter Foley napsal(a):
>> This adds new -Wno-* options also for the gcc case, is there a reason
>> for this? Also, the -Wno-missing-field-initializers option is not
>> available in some old gccs, so we would need a HOSTCC equivalent of
>> cc-disable-warning.
>>
>> Michal
> 
> It appeared that the conditional was simply reversed, as
> -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks is only supported by gcc, and
> explicitly not supported by clang.
> (see https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/Makefile?id=61163efae02040f66a95c8ed17f4407951ba58fa)
> It could be that the fno-delete-null-pointer-checks option was simply
> misplaced, and the Wno-options should still be guarded by if(clang),
> would that be a better approach?

I think so. The -Wno-* options had not been present before clang support
was added. It really looks like the -fno-delete-null-pointer-checks
should not be there. Added Behan to CC.

Michal