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Add '-fwrapv' to gcc CFLAGS
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:10:17 +0000 (11:10 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:59:54 +0000 (14:59 -0700)
commit3752057d8548fc1b00cde42a751a67a7df3481ee
treed588c207b5b578788f45e6824d037df616e37ea0
parent9ab86a875ebb6f7568c1cd096ca7e7dd66b7aadd
Add '-fwrapv' to gcc CFLAGS

commit 68df3755e383e6fecf2354a67b08f92f18536594 upstream.

This makes sure that gcc doesn't try to optimize away wrapping
arithmetic, which the kernel occasionally uses for overflow testing, ie
things like

if (ptr + offset < ptr)

which technically is undefined for non-unsigned types. See

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12597

for details.

Not all versions of gcc support it, so we need to make it conditional
(it looks like it was introduced in gcc-3.4).

Reminded-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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