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powerpc: use consistent types in mktree

Message ID 20090811131455.eceea05e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Commit 3c15a68880023722fc794018768df556f438ae98
Delegated to: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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Stephen Rothwell Aug. 11, 2009, 3:14 a.m. UTC
gcc v4.4 currently produces this build warning:

arch/powerpc/boot/mktree.c: In function 'main':
arch/powerpc/boot/mktree.c:104: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules

tmpbuf is only used as an array of unsigned ints, so declare it that way.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
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 arch/powerpc/boot/mktree.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/arch/powerpc/boot/mktree.c b/arch/powerpc/boot/mktree.c
index c2baae0..e2ae243 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/boot/mktree.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/boot/mktree.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@  typedef struct boot_block {
 } boot_block_t;
 
 #define IMGBLK	512
-char	tmpbuf[IMGBLK];
+unsigned int	tmpbuf[IMGBLK / sizeof(unsigned int)];
 
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
@@ -95,13 +95,13 @@  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 
 	/* Assume zImage is an ELF file, and skip the 64K header.
 	*/
-	if (read(in_fd, tmpbuf, IMGBLK) != IMGBLK) {
+	if (read(in_fd, tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf)) != sizeof(tmpbuf)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "%s is too small to be an ELF image\n",
 				argv[1]);
 		exit(4);
 	}
 
-	if ((*(unsigned int *)tmpbuf) != htonl(0x7f454c46)) {
+	if (tmpbuf[0] != htonl(0x7f454c46)) {
 		fprintf(stderr, "%s is not an ELF image\n", argv[1]);
 		exit(4);
 	}
@@ -121,11 +121,11 @@  int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	}
 
 	while (nblks-- > 0) {
-		if (read(in_fd, tmpbuf, IMGBLK) < 0) {
+		if (read(in_fd, tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf)) < 0) {
 			perror("zImage read");
 			exit(5);
 		}
-		cp = (unsigned int *)tmpbuf;
+		cp = tmpbuf;
 		for (i = 0; i < sizeof(tmpbuf) / sizeof(unsigned int); i++)
 			cksum += *cp++;
 		if (write(out_fd, tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf)) != sizeof(tmpbuf)) {