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authorValentine Barshak2019-07-22 11:47:50 +0200
committerMichael Brown2019-07-22 12:07:13 +0200
commit1dd56dbd11082fb622c2ed21cfaced4f47d798a6 (patch)
tree19e09c1105ba16ed294ba2ca5e70876ae031f646
parent[build] Fix "'%s' directive argument is null" error (diff)
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[build] Workaround compilation error with gcc 9.1
Compiling with gcc 9.1 generates lots of "taking address of packed member of ... may result in an unaligned pointer value" warnings. Some of these warnings are genuine, and indicate correctly that parts of iPXE currently require the CPU (or runtime environment) to support unaligned accesses. For example: the TCP/IP receive data path will attempt to access 32-bit fields that may not be aligned to a 32-bit boundary. Other warnings are either spurious (such as when the pointer is to a variable-length byte array, which can have no alignment requirement anyway) or unhelpful (such as when the pointer is used solely to provide a debug colour value for the DBGC() macro). There appears to be no easy way to silence the spurious warnings. Since the ability to perform unaligned accesses is already a requirement for iPXE, work around the problem by silencing this class of warnings. Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak <gvaxon@gmail.com> Modified-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mcb30@ipxe.org>
-rw-r--r--src/Makefile.housekeeping9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/Makefile.housekeeping b/src/Makefile.housekeeping
index f8334921..4b09e81f 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.housekeeping
+++ b/src/Makefile.housekeeping
@@ -185,6 +185,15 @@ WNST_TEST = $(CC) -Wstringop-truncation -x c -c /dev/null -o /dev/null \
>/dev/null 2>&1
WNST_FLAGS := $(shell $(WNST_TEST) && $(ECHO) '-Wno-stringop-truncation')
WORKAROUND_CFLAGS += $(WNST_FLAGS)
+
+# gcc 9.1 generates warnings for taking address of packed member which
+# may result in an unaligned pointer value. Inhibit the warnings.
+#
+WNAPM_TEST = $(CC) -Wno-address-of-packed-member -x c -c /dev/null \
+ -o /dev/null >/dev/null 2>&1
+WNAPM_FLAGS := $(shell $(WNAPM_TEST) && \
+ $(ECHO) '-Wno-address-of-packed-member')
+WORKAROUND_CFLAGS += $(WNAPM_FLAGS)
endif
# Some versions of gas choke on division operators, treating them as