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

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 17:14:38 UTC 2019


On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 12:45 AM Yu, Mingli <mingli.yu at windriver.com> wrote:
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> On 2019年04月17日 02:00, Khem Raj wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:40 AM Yu, Mingli <mingli.yu at windriver.com> wrote:
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> >> 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.
> >
> > disable warning as errors.
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> Hi Khem,
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> I don't quite get what you mean. Disable warning as errors?
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> As https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2019-04/msg00315.html, gcc
> upstream thinks the build error is meaningless when compile
> gcc-sanitizers with -Og and suggests not use -Og to compile for
> gcc-sanitizers.
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> So I send out the patch to add the workaround [DEBUG_OPTIMIZATION_append
> = " -Wno-error"] to silence the error when debug build is enabled for
> gcc-sanitizers.
> If the workaround isn't suitable, then how to silence the
> -Werror=maybe-uninitialized issue build error when debug build enabled?

I was meaning to say that remove -Werror from cmdline completely

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> Thanks,
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> >>>
> >>> cu
> >>> Adrian
> >>>
> >


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