[PATCH v2] NVMe: silence GCC warning on 32 bit

Paul Bolle pebolle at tiscali.nl
Mon Mar 24 11:57:46 EDT 2014


On Mon, 2014-03-24 at 16:49 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 4:36 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl> wrote:
> > And as this is now unlikely to be in time for v3.14, we might decide to
> > dig deeper. It won't be the first time that a rather small change (say,
> > converting a variable from signed to unsigned) turns out be enough to
> > make GCC understand the flow of the code.
> 
> Anything we can do with factoring out the "if (!first)" in both branches?

That was basically my approach in version one: drop "first" all
together. Worked great: the warning was gone. But Keith noted that I
also completely broke the logic of the code. So I decided, after some
further attempts, to take the easy way out and and initialize "bvprv" to
{ NULL }.


Paul Bolle




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