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

Yu, Mingli mingli.yu at windriver.com
Mon Apr 22 05:45:55 UTC 2019



On 2019年04月18日 01:14, Khem Raj wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Hi Khem,
>>
>> I don't quite get what you mean. Disable warning as errors?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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

Thanks Khem! So this is what we did currently now in V3 patch.

Hi RP,
So any comments here/

Thanks,

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