On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 02:46 -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 16:43 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-11-24 at 16:04 -0800, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > > From: Helin Zhang <[email protected]>
> > >
> > > Pointer of type void * shouldn't be used in arithmetic, which may
> > > result in compilation error. Casting of (u8 *) can be added to fix
> > > that.
> > >
> >
> > void * arithmetic is used quite frequently in the kernel.
> >
> > What compiler emits an error?
>
> When you use the gcc -Wpointer-arith, it generates the warning.
make W=3 does that
$ make help
[...]
make W=n [targets] Enable extra gcc checks, n=1,2,3 where
1: warnings which may be relevant and do not occur too often
2: warnings which occur quite often but may still be relevant
3: more obscure warnings, can most likely be ignored
but I think it should be ignored.
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