On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm starting to see failures like this on allmodconfig builds:
> 
> sound/usb/midi.c: In function ‘snd_usbmidi_out_endpoint_create’:
> sound/usb/midi.c:1389:2: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
>   case (((0xfc08) << 16) | (0x0101)):
>   ^~~~
> 
> (The case statement is a macro but it evaluates to what I have there)
> 
> and that thing fails with
> 
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0
> 
> although it doesn't have any problems building with newer compilers.
> 
> I'm presuming older gccs consider those case statements signed ints and
> the following fixes it:
> 
>   case ((((unsigned int)0xfc08) << 16) | (0x0101)):
> 
> and I guess we can whack the couple of occurrences but what I'm
> wondering is why does this work with newer gccs?

I tried

void foo (int i)
{
  switch (i)
    {
      case (((0xfc08) << 16) | (0x0101)):;
    }
}

also with 'unsigned int i' but that's accepted with GCC 7.  So
what do you switch on?

> Thx.
> 
> 

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