Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] slirp: Fix build with gcc 9

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 1 Mar 2019 at 09:39, Greg Kurz <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Build fails with gcc 9:
>
>   CC      slirp/ndp_table.o
> slirp/ndp_table.c: In function ‘ndp_table_add’:
> slirp/ndp_table.c:31:23: error: taking address of packed member of ‘struct 
> ndpentry’ may result in an unaligned pointer value 
> [-Werror=address-of-packed-member]
>    31 |         if (in6_equal(&ndp_table->table[i].ip_addr, &ip_addr)) {
>       |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> slirp/ndp_table.c: In function ‘ndp_table_search’:
> slirp/ndp_table.c:75:23: error: taking address of packed member of ‘struct 
> ndpentry’ may result in an unaligned pointer value 
> [-Werror=address-of-packed-member]
>    75 |         if (in6_equal(&ndp_table->table[i].ip_addr, &ip_addr)) {
>       |                       ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> The ndpentry structure isn't used to model on-the-wire data or anything
> else that would care for the struct layout. It doesn't need to be packed
> actually. Just drop SLIRP_PACKED.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> ---
> v2: - don't check the struct size at compile time
> ---
>  slirp/slirp.h |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/slirp/slirp.h b/slirp/slirp.h
> index 752a4cd8c81c..8068ba1d1e9e 100644
> --- a/slirp/slirp.h
> +++ b/slirp/slirp.h
> @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ bool arp_table_search(Slirp *slirp, uint32_t ip_addr,
>  struct ndpentry {
>      unsigned char   eth_addr[ETH_ALEN];     /* sender hardware address */
>      struct in6_addr ip_addr;                /* sender IP address       */
> -} SLIRP_PACKED;
> +};
>
>  #define NDP_TABLE_SIZE 16

Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

thanks
-- PMM