linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17

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Date:   Wed, 04 Apr 2018 23:10:58 +0000
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        James Y Knight <jyknight@...gle.com>,
        Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@...gle.com>,
        Stephen Hines <srhines@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...gle.com>, groeck@...omium.org,
        Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Manoj Gupta <manojgupta@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] x86/build changes for v4.17

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 10:13 AM Linus Torvalds <
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> The fact that clang by default enables "-fmerge-all-constants"
> behavior is just inexcusable. That's not just "let's do invalid
> optimizations based on undefined behavior". That's an actual "let's do
> known invalid optimizations that are explicitly disallowed even by the
> standard".

Manoj already has a patch for this that looks like it's passed code review:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D45289
--
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers