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SubjectRe: [PATCH] kallsyms: work around bogus -Wrestrict warning
On Wed, 8 Jan 2020 10:26:02 +0900 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> Hi Arnd,
>
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 22:40:26 +0100
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> > gcc -O3 produces some really odd warnings for this file:
> >
> > kernel/kallsyms.c: In function 'sprint_symbol':
> > kernel/kallsyms.c:369:3: error: 'strcpy' source argument is the same as destination [-Werror=restrict]
> > strcpy(buffer, name);
> > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > kernel/kallsyms.c: In function 'sprint_symbol_no_offset':
> > kernel/kallsyms.c:369:3: error: 'strcpy' source argument is the same as destination [-Werror=restrict]
> > strcpy(buffer, name);
> > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > kernel/kallsyms.c: In function 'sprint_backtrace':
> > kernel/kallsyms.c:369:3: error: 'strcpy' source argument is the same as destination [-Werror=restrict]
> > strcpy(buffer, name);
> > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > This obviously cannot be since it is preceded by an 'if (name != buffer)'
> > check.
>
> Hmm, this looks like a bug in gcc.

Yes, we're getting a lot of such reports. I don't think current gcc is
ready for this patch so I'll drop it, sorry.

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