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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:56:37 -0300
From: Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com>
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To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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Subject: Re: Warning when compiling arch/x86/mm/init_64.c on x86_64
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Larry Finger wrote:
> Since commit 511631011d39706ac81ee5e4c9084d61e5b4fd34, entitled
> "x86: fix pointer type warning in arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:early_memtest", the 
> following warning is produced for x86_64:
> 
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c: In function ‘early_memtest’:
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c:520: warning: passing argument 2 of 
> ‘find_e820_area_size’ from incompatible pointer type
> 
> Before this commit, the compilation of this routine on my system was clean. I 
> use gcc version 4.2.1. Was this the warning for i386 before the patch? I 
> tried simple changes in the definition of find_e820_area_size, but only 
> managed to push the warning on to the call to bad_addr_size. At that point I 
> decided to let the experts find a proper fix. Note that the warning does no 
> harm - I just get nervous about incompatible pointer warnings as it usually 
> means that I have screwed something up.
> 

The patch was against linux-next, which seems to have changed 
find_e820_area_size() - against mainline it introduced the warning 
instead of fixing it.

-- 
Kevin Winchester

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