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Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:05:48 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>, Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] C undefined behavior fix
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On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 01:36:32PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 12:09:10PM -0700, Tom Rini wrote:
> > 2) Add -ffreestanding to the CFLAGS of arch/ppc/kernel/prom.o (If this
> > optimization comes back on with this flag later on, it would be a
> > compiler bug, yes?)
> 
> No.  You still have the problem of using pointer arithmetic past
> one past the end of the object.

Well, the problem is that we aren't running where the compiler thinks we
are yet.  So what would the right fix be for this?

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/
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