[U-Boot] [PATCH 7/7] GCC4.6: Squash warning in cmd_mem.c

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Mon Sep 26 19:31:23 CEST 2011


On Monday, September 26, 2011 06:10:37 PM Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday, September 26, 2011 05:03:46 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > On Monday, September 26, 2011 09:25:36 AM Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > > Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > > > The assigned variable can be removed because the pointers are
> > > > > volatile so accesses to their addresses are always generated.
> > > > 
> > > > i think the stores to a var were added to avoid a gcc warning, but if
> > > > newer versions don't warn anymore, should be fine.
> > > 
> > > Obviously we have to check if older tools still accept this.
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > as I was never completely sure about this file from the begining, I'm all
> > for it.
> > 
> > Btw. who's supposed to merge the rest of the series anyway ?
> > 
> > > Marek, which tool chains did you use for testing?
> > 
> > Hand-built gcc4.6.0+debian patches and gcc4.4.6+debian patches:
> > 
> > arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.4 (Debian 4.4.6-7) 4.4.6
> > arm-linux-gnueabi-gcc-4.6 (Debian 4.6.0-14) 4.6.1 20110616 (prerelease)
> > 
> > There was someone on the irc who (unsuccessfully) tried to compile uboot
> > with gcc 2.xx recently. Maybe we should impose some lower bound for
> > compiler version, though I guess 4.4 is too high. Suggestions ?
> 
> i think gcc-3.x has been broken for a while but no one has noticed

I guess we should go the kernel way -- make it 4.2 and be done with it.

> -mike


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