[OE-core] [PATCH v3] gcc-sanitizers: fix -Werror=maybe-uninitialized issue

Yu, Mingli mingli.yu at windriver.com
Tue Apr 16 08:45:00 UTC 2019



On 2019年04月16日 00:21, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 07:19:13AM -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
>>
>> What are you trying to convey ? That’s what I mentioned before I began my
>> reply however to reiterate my point was if a package is not usually built
>> and tested with this combination which is evident because it fails to build
>> then how good would it be if we fix this error especially complex packages
>> like compilers so is it worth to fix them or disable Og for them
>
> Packages that usually get built and tested with -Og should be pretty rare,
> and these specific build failures are better at finding the rare packages
> that use -Werror than pointing at potential miscompilations.
>
>>From a distribution point of view, a package build with -Werror by
> default is arguably a bug since this frequently breaks when something
> is changed (usually the compiler version).
>
> -Og is better suited than the -O that was previously used for debugging,
> but are we talking about debug builds or production builds?
> If users would be using DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION in production builds that

Thanks Adrian and Khem's response!
We indeed don't use DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION in production build.

But still comes question: how to silence gcc-sanitizers build failure 
when debug build enabled?

Thanks,

> would be wrong - this will always be a mostly untested situation
> with an increased probability of hitting bugs noone else has seen
> before.
>
> cu
> Adrian
>


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