[U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: remove manual reloc alias warning

Andreas Bießmann andreas.devel at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 13 17:14:49 CEST 2012


Dear Mike Frysinger,

On 13.08.2012 16:54, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 13 August 2012 05:02:03 Andreas Bießmann wrote:
>> From: Andreas Bießmann <biessmann at corscience.de>
>>
>> The avr32 architecture (and some others) require manual relocation. Due to
>> the previous error all avr32 boards gave warnings in MAKEALL wich makes it
>> hard to find new warnings.
>>
>> This patch fixes following warning:
>> ---8<---
>> dlmalloc.c: In function 'malloc_bin_reloc':
>> dlmalloc.c:1493: warning: dereferencing pointer 'p' does break
>> strict-aliasing rules dlmalloc.c:1493: warning: dereferencing pointer 'p'
>> does break strict-aliasing rules dlmalloc.c:1490: note: initialized from
>> here
>> dlmalloc.c:1493: note: initialized from here
>> --->8---
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Bießmann <biessmann at corscience.de>
>> ---
>> A question to all the other related arches, namely m68k, mips, nds32 and
>> sparc: Do you encounter the same warnings or is this warning due to my
>> outdated compiler (4.4.3 currently, unfortunately atmel do not bother to
>> send their patches mainline)?
> 
> previous thread (and i think there was one before this):
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/134597/

thank you for the hint. I think this is a better solution so I will test
it and try to force the other patch as the correct solution.

Best regards

Andreas Bießmann



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