Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:42:30 +0100 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>, arm@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [head tinderbox] failure on arm/arm Message-ID: <20061112144230.GC2331@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20061112142710.GE91556@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> <20061112140010.GA47660@rambler-co.ru> References: <20061112133929.9194773068@freebsd-current.sentex.ca> <20061112140010.GA47660@rambler-co.ru> <20061112142710.GE91556@wombat.fafoe.narf.at> <20061112133929.9194773068@freebsd-current.sentex.ca> <20061112140010.GA47660@rambler-co.ru>
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On 2006-11-12 17:00, Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> wrote:
> > /src/lib/libelf/elf_rand.c: In function `elf_rand':
> > /src/lib/libelf/elf_rand.c:47: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /src/lib/libelf.
> > *** Error code 1
>
> This looks like a GCC bug to me. The following code snippet,
> when compiled on FreeBSD/arm, causes a -Wcast-align warning
> which doesn't look right:
>
> %%%
> $ cat a.c
> struct foo {
> char x;
> };
>
> struct foo *
> bubu(char *s)
> {
>
> return (struct foo *)s;
> }
> $ cc -c -Wcast-align a.c
> a.c: In function `bubu':
> a.c:9: warning: cast increases required alignment of target type
> %%%
>
> (None of other supported architecutes see the issue here.)
You can't cast any random (char *) pointer to a pointer of a type which
is (potentially) larger than 1 byte. It's the same sort of warning you
will get if you try to:
char ch[] = "\x00\x00\x00\x00";
char *p = &(ch[0]);
unsigned long *lptr = (unsigned long *)p;
You cannot guarantee that `ch' is stored in an address that is properly
aligned for (unsigned long), and this is what GCC warns about here.
On 2006-11-12 15:27, Stefan Farfeleder <stefan@fafoe.narf.at> wrote:
> What is sizeof(struct foo)? If it's > 1 it makes sense.
Exactly :)
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