Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Use address-of operator on section symbols

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Tue Jan 05 2021 - 15:23:53 EST


On 1/5/21 12:18 PM, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> When building xway_defconfig with clang:
>
> arch/mips/lantiq/prom.c:82:23: error: array comparison always evaluates
> to true [-Werror,-Wtautological-compare]
> else if (__dtb_start != __dtb_end)
> ^
> 1 error generated.
>
> These are not true arrays, they are linker defined symbols, which are
> just addresses. Using the address of operator silences the warning
> and does not change the resulting assembly with either clang/ld.lld
> or gcc/ld (tested with diff + objdump -Dr). Do the same thing across
> the entire MIPS subsystem to ensure there are no more warnings around
> this type of comparison.
>
> Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1232
> Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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Florian