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Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 13:30:50 -0700
From:   Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] sched/headers: Fix compilation error with GCC 12
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:21:01 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > +/* The + 1 below places the pointers within the range of their array */
> >  #define for_class_range(class, _from, _to) \
> > -	for (class = (_from); class != (_to); class--)
> > +	for (class = (_from); class + 1 != (_to) + 1; class--)
> 
> Urgh, so now we get less readable code, just because GCC is being
> stupid?
> 
> What's wrong with negative array indexes? memory is memory, stuff works.

What's more, C is C.  Glorified assembly language in which people do odd
stuff.

But this is presumably a released gcc version and we need to do
something.  And presumably, we need to do a backportable something, so
people can compile older kernels with gcc-12.

Is it possible to suppress just this warning with a gcc option?  And if
so, are we confident that this warning will never be useful in other
places in the kernel?

If no||no then we'll need to add workarounds such as these?