Re: [PATCH] wireless: ath: work around false-positive stringop-overread warning

From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@kernel.org>
To: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>, "Kalle Valo" <kvalo@kernel.org>
Cc: Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wireless: ath: work around false-positive stringop-overread warning
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2023 09:43:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e9601db2-ff7d-4490-abd5-8d3c5946e108@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c7f88295-2e22-4100-b9c8-feb380b64359@app.fastmail.com>

On Mon, May 8, 2023, at 17:07, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Mon, May 8, 2023, at 16:57, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> With older GCC versions from your page I don't have this problem. I'm
>> using Debian 10 still so so is my libc too old?
>
> (dropping most Cc)
>
> Indeed, thanks for the report, I forgot about that issue. I used
> to build the cross toolchains in an old Ubuntu 16.04 chroot to avoid
> that issue, and I linked all other dependencies statically.
>
> The gcc-13.1.0 builds are the first ones I did on an arm64 machine,
> so I had to create a new build environment and started out with
> just my normal Debian testing rootfs, which caused me enough issues
> to figure out first.
>
> I had previously experimented with linking statically against
> musl to avoid all other dependencies, but that ended up with
> slower binaries because the default memory allocator in musl
> doesn't work that well for gcc, and I never quite figured out
> how to pick a different memory allocator, or which one to use.
>
> I should probably just pick an older Debian release that is new
> enough to contain cross compilers for arm64 and x86 and then
> set up the same kind of chroot I had in before.

It took me a while, but now I have a working build setup
in a Debian Buster schroot with gcc-13 as the main compiler,
and I updated the gcc-13.1 binaries with those, as well as
uploading gcc-11.4 and gcc-12.3 build the same way.

I have only tested the binaries on arm64 Debian testing,
could you see if the new x86 builds work for you?

       Arnd