[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/9] Fix strict-aliasing warning in dlmalloc

[Simon Glass]

Hi Wolfgang,

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Wolfgang Denk <wd at denx.de> wrote:
> Dear Simon,
>
> In message <CAPnjgZ1OxJJsSEodSM-fqTN791mW-UezqWjFLQBAS-4RbFHJkQ at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
>>
>> > Can you please tell me at least one board configuration that throws
>> > this error (preferrably ppc, arm or mips) ?
>>
>> I can't see one with those architectures. It does happen for others though:
> ...
>
> Strange.  Both MIPS and PPC build without a single warning for me.
>
> I cannot test avr32 or m68k here.
>
>> > Also, at least one for the "mpc5xxx: Fix strict-aliasing warnings in
>> > usb_ohci.c" and "ppc4xx: Fix strict-aliasing warnings in usb_ohci.c"
>> > patches?
>
> None here.
>
> I am tempted to blame your tool chain for the problems.

Could be - well you can download it for yourself if you want to try it.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/u-boot/

The warnings seems mostly reasonable (i.e. correct) to me, except for
the new USB alias one AFTER Marek's fix. That one I don't quite
understand.

>
> Is anybody else seing these warnings? With which tool chain versions?

Will wait to hear from people.

Regards,
Simon

>
> Best regards,
>
> Wolfgang Denk
>
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