From: Chuck Lever Subject: Re: [NFS] QA Notice: for net-fs/nfs-utils-1.1.3 Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:18:08 -0500 Message-ID: References: <200902021139.26340.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed delsp=yes Cc: Linux NFS Mailing List To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Toralf_F=F6rster?= Return-path: Received: from acsinet11.oracle.com ([141.146.126.233]:46083 "EHLO acsinet11.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752349AbZBBQST convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2009 11:18:19 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200902021139.26340.toralf.foerster@gmx.de> Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hallo- On Feb 2, 2009, at 5:39 AM, Toralf F=F6rster wrote: > Hello, > > I get this during installation under a stable Gentoo system: > > * QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile > * fine but exhibit random runtime failures. > * mount_xdr.c:306: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will =20 > break > strict-aliasing rules > > * Please do not file a Gentoo bug and instead report the above QA > * issues directly to the upstream developers of this software. > * Homepage: http://nfs.sourceforge.net/ mount_xdr.c is created mechanically by the rpcgen tool. The problem =20 is most likely in rpcgen and not in nfs-utils. We have -Wall enabled =20 in nfs-utils makefiles to catch problems in code that actual humans =20 wrote, but it also reports issues in the machine-generated source files= =2E We haven't had any firm reports of run-time problems in this area. Do = =20 you (or does GenToo) have any reproducers that expose a run-time =20 problem? -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com