[igt-dev] [PATCH i-g-t 2/7] Cast void * pointer used in arithmetic to uint32_t*

[Arkadiusz Hiler]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:09:25PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> Quoting Arkadiusz Hiler (2018-07-10 14:58:49)
> > On Sat, Jul 07, 2018 at 08:22:38PM -0300, Rodrigo Siqueira wrote:
> > > This commit fixes the GCC warning:
> > > 
> > > warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic [-Wpointer-arith]
> > >      memset(ptr + offsets[0], full_range ? 0x00 : 0x10,
> > >                 ^
> > > warning: pointer of type ‘void *’ used in arithmetic [-Wpointer-arith]
> > >      memset(ptr + offsets[1], 0x80,
> > > 
> > > This commit cast the ptr pointer, which is a void *, to uint32_t * in
> > > the pointer arithmetic operation.
> > 
> > This will change semantics, as according to GNU C standard[1], void
> > pointers have a size of 1 for all arithmetical purposes.
> > 
> > So you should be using uint8_t (or char) pointer instead.
> 
> Please just fix the compiler flags, we want close compatibility with the
> kernel coding standards which explicitly allow void arithmetic for the
> simplicity it lends to writing code.
> -Chris

Fair point.

We don't rise the error with meson, so it is not a change in the gcc
defaults. Somehow autotools manage to end up adding -Wpointer-arith to
BASE_CFLAGS.

I don't think we should invest time into making autotools behave, since
it's going to be dropped completely. Hopefully this will happen sooner
than later.

-- 
Cheers,
Arek