On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:41 AM Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Sure enough, an arm64 defconfig builds perfectly alright with that change,
> but it really shouldn't. I'm using clang 11.0.5, so I had another go with
> GCC 9.2.1 and bang:
Ok, looks like a clang bug, but a reasonably benign one.
As long as we have sufficient coverage with gcc, we'll get error
reporting in a timely manner for any new incorrect assignments, so I
think we can do that constant anonymous struct even if it does mean
that clang might let some bad cases through (I personally use gcc for
build testing, and then clang for building my boot kernels, so I'd
catch anything x86-64 allmodconfig in my build tests).
And keeping it unnamed it would avoid a lot of noisy churn..
Linus
