[syslinux] Some build/QA warnings

Igor Sverkos igor.sverkos at googlemail.com
Thu Jul 11 15:43:46 PDT 2013


Hi,

I built syslinux-5.11-pre8 on Gentoo (x86_amd64, gcc-4.7.3,
glibc-2.17, 3.9.9 x86_64) from git and got these messages:

 * QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it
 *            may exhibit random runtime failures.
 * sha512crypt.c:227:5: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * sha512crypt.c:228:5: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * sha256crypt.c:196:5: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * sha256crypt.c:197:5: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * src/lzo_swd.ch:268:9: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * src/lzo_swd.ch:468:9: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * src/lzo_swd.ch:504:9: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * src/lzo_swd.ch:609:5: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * src/lzo_swd.ch:693:5: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer
will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * drivers/net/myri10ge.c:267:3: warning: dereferencing type-punned
pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
 * drivers/net/myri10ge.c:269:2: warning: dereferencing type-punned
pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]


 * QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it
 *            may exhibit random runtime failures.
 * pxechn.c:596:2: warning: implicit declaration of function
‘__bswap_32__macro’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]


 * QA Notice: Package triggers severe warnings which indicate that it
 *            may exhibit random runtime failures.
 * drivers/bus/isa.c:112:18: warning: array subscript is above array
bounds [-Warray-bounds]

 * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA
 * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software.
 * Homepage: http://www.syslinux.org/

Full build log: https://paste.lugons.org/show/B6q27oRowictG4L6cE5z/
Environment: https://paste.lugons.org/show/QBvtsw18Fjoa5fxRoFse/

Please tell me if you are not interested in these messages.

Thanks.


-- 
Regards,
Igor



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