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    "date": "2017-09-01T11:34:36",
    "name": "[v3,0/2] Fix tests on recent gcc",
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        "name": "Juan Quintela",
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        "From": "Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>",
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        "Subject": "[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] Fix tests on recent gcc",
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    "content": "Hi\n\nchanges from v2:\n- change assert from position\n\nPlease review.\n\n[v2]\n\n- move all uses of -1 for memtest.\n- remove docs about the feature.\n- use size_t for the second patch (cedric)\n\nPlease, review.\n\n\n[v1]\n\nOn Fedora 26 (gcc-7.1.1 and glib2 2.52.3) tests don't compile.\n\nIn file included from /usr/include/string.h:639:0,\n                 from /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/include/qemu/osdep.h:69,\n                 from /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/tests/test-iov.c:1:\nIn function ‘memcpy’,\n    inlined from ‘iov_from_buf’ at /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/include/qemu/iov.h:51:9,\n    inlined from ‘test_to_from_buf_1’ at /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/tests/test-iov.c:88:14,\n    inlined from ‘test_to_from_buf’ at /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/tests/test-iov.c:144:9:\n/usr/include/bits/string3.h:53:10: error: ‘__builtin_memcpy’: specified size 18446744073709551615 exceeds maximum object size 9223372036854775807 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]\n   return __builtin___memcpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos0 (__dest));\n          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nIn function ‘memcpy’,\n    inlined from ‘iov_to_buf’ at /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/include/qemu/iov.h:64:9,\n    inlined from ‘test_to_from_buf_1’ at /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/tests/test-iov.c:94:14,\n    inlined from ‘test_to_from_buf’ at /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/tests/test-iov.c:144:9:\n/usr/include/bits/string3.h:53:10: error: ‘__builtin_memcpy’: specified size 18446744073709551615 exceeds maximum object size 9223372036854775807 [-Werror=stringop-overflow=]\n   return __builtin___memcpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos0 (__dest));\n          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ncc1: all warnings being treated as errors\n\nIn this case, we are abusing the functions and call a size_t argument\nwith -1, which gives us a very big number.  gcc gets overzealous and\ngets confused about it.  Notice that this was introduced in 2015 by Paolo:\n\ncommit ad523bca56a7202d2498c550a41be5c986c4d33c\nAuthor: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>\nDate:   Tue Dec 22 12:03:33 2015 +0100\n\n    iov: avoid memcpy for \"simple\" iov_from_buf/iov_to_buf\n\nI fixed it by using the real sizes in the tests insntead of -1.  It is already calculated.\n\n\n\n\nIn file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/glist.h:32:0,\n                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/ghash.h:33,\n                 from /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib.h:50,\n                 from /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/tests/vmgenid-test.c:11:\nIn function ‘acpi_find_vgia’,\n    inlined from ‘read_guid_from_memory’ at /mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/tests/vmgenid-test.c:103:18:\n/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmem.h:216:10: error: argument 1 range [18446744071562067968, 18446744073709551615] exceeds maximum object size 9223372036854775807 [-Werror=alloc-size-larger-than=]\n      __p = g_##func##_n (__n, __s);   \\\n      ~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\n/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmem.h:278:42: note: in expansion of macro ‘_G_NEW’\n #define g_new0(struct_type, n_structs)   _G_NEW (struct_type, n_structs, malloc0)\n                                          ^~~~~~\n/mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/tests/vmgenid-test.c:70:14: note: in expansion of macro ‘g_new0’\n     tables = g_new0(uint32_t, tables_nr);\n              ^~~~~~\n/mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/tests/vmgenid-test.c: In function ‘read_guid_from_memory’:\n/usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmem.h:96:10: note: in a call to allocation function ‘g_malloc0_n’ declared here\n gpointer g_malloc0_n      (gsize  n_blocks,\n          ^~~~~~~~~~~\ncc1: all warnings being treated as errors\nmake: *** [/mnt/kvm/qemu/cleanup/rules.mak:66: tests/vmgenid-test.o] Error 1\n\n\nthis cames form line:\n\n    tables = g_new0(uint32_t, tables_nr);\n\nglib/gcc gets completely confused about this and think that 1st\nargument can be 2^64-1.  Documentation says that you should use g_new\nfor struct types, so ...  I moved to g_malloc0() and call it a day.\n\nWhat do you think?\n\nLater, Juan.\n\nJuan Quintela (2):\n  tests: Use real size for iov tests\n  tests: Make vmgenid test compile\n\n include/qemu/iov.h   |  6 ------\n tests/test-iov.c     | 10 +++++-----\n tests/vmgenid-test.c |  2 +-\n 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)"
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