Re: older gccs and case labels producing integer constants

From: Richard Biener
Date: Tue Apr 05 2022 - 17:57:51 EST


On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Richard Biener wrote:

> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm starting to see failures like this on allmodconfig builds:
> >
> > sound/usb/midi.c: In function ‘snd_usbmidi_out_endpoint_create’:
> > sound/usb/midi.c:1389:2: error: case label does not reduce to an integer constant
> > case (((0xfc08) << 16) | (0x0101)):
> > ^~~~
> >
> > (The case statement is a macro but it evaluates to what I have there)
> >
> > and that thing fails with
> >
> > $ gcc --version
> > gcc (SUSE Linux) 7.5.0
> >
> > although it doesn't have any problems building with newer compilers.
> >
> > I'm presuming older gccs consider those case statements signed ints and
> > the following fixes it:
> >
> > case ((((unsigned int)0xfc08) << 16) | (0x0101)):
> >
> > and I guess we can whack the couple of occurrences but what I'm
> > wondering is why does this work with newer gccs?
>
> I tried
>
> void foo (int i)
> {
> switch (i)
> {
> case (((0xfc08) << 16) | (0x0101)):;
> }
> }
>
> also with 'unsigned int i' but that's accepted with GCC 7. So
> what do you switch on?

Aha, also

> gcc-7 -S t.c -std=c11 -pedantic -pedantic-errors
t.c: In function 'foo':
t.c:6:7: error: case label is not an integer constant expression
[-Wpedantic]
case USB_ID(0xfc08, 0x0101):;
^~~~

aber _nur_ mit -std=c11 (oder c99, aber nicht c89) und -pedantic
-pedantic-errors.

#define USB_ID(v,p) (((v)<<16)|(p))
void foo (unsigned int *i)
{
switch (*i)
{
case USB_ID(0xfc08, 0x0101):;
}
}

Wird auch mit gcc 11 rejected. Kanns sein dass mit gcc 7 andere
compiler flags genommen werden?

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