On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 05:44:00AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote: > You have defined of_get_cpu_hwid to return u64, will this create compiler > warnings when since we are storing a u64 into a u32? > > It seems only if we make with W=3. Yes. This is done by -Wconversion, "Warn for implicit conversions that may alter a value." > I thought we usually warned on this. This warning is not in -Wall or -Wextra either, it suffers too much from false positives. It is very natural to just ignore the high bits of modulo types (which is what "unsigned" types *are*). Or the bits that "fall off" on a conversion. The C standard makes this required behaviour, it is useful, and it is the only convenient way of getting this! Segher
