On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 02:29:58PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> gcc 6.0 added an annoying warning:
>
> fdstream.c: In function 'virFDStreamWrite':
> fdstream.c:390:29: error: logical 'or' of equal expressions [-Werror=logical-op]
> if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK) {
> ^~
> fdstream.c: In function 'virFDStreamRead':
> fdstream.c:440:29: error: logical 'or' of equal expressions [-Werror=logical-op]
> if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK) {
> ^~
>
> This makes it impossible to build out-of-the-box on rawhide,
> and we aren't guaranteed that the gcc bug will be fixed in a
> timely manner:
> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69602
>
> So work around it by further complicating the logic to thwart the
> compiler.
Personally I don't like this approach. Why don't we take that 6 line reproducer
from GCC BZ and create a m4 macro that will detect that bug in GCC and turn off
the logical-op check? For me this solution is much cleaner than introducing
some ugly workaround in our code just because GCC has a bug.
Pavel
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