[dpdk-dev] ixgbe: fix compile error with gcc4.4 (used RHEL 6)

Message ID 1411037752-8000-1-git-send-email-bruce.richardson@intel.com (mailing list archive)
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Commit Message

Bruce Richardson Sept. 18, 2014, 10:55 a.m. UTC
  The refcnt field is contained within an anonymous union within the mbuf
data structure, and gcc 4.4 gives an error about an unknown field unless
the initialiser for the field is contained within extra braces.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon Sept. 18, 2014, 11:09 a.m. UTC | #1
> The refcnt field is contained within an anonymous union within the mbuf
> data structure, and gcc 4.4 gives an error about an unknown field unless
> the initialiser for the field is contained within extra braces.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>

Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>

Thanks Bruce, it is now applied.
  
Neil Horman Sept. 18, 2014, 12:25 p.m. UTC | #2
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 01:09:16PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > The refcnt field is contained within an anonymous union within the mbuf
> > data structure, and gcc 4.4 gives an error about an unknown field unless
> > the initialiser for the field is contained within extra braces.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> 
> Thanks Bruce, it is now applied.

Hang on here, we use anonymous unions all the time in RHEL6, and make
assignments to them frequently, and the compiler doesn't complain (see the
dropcount variable in sk_buff for an example).  Not saying that this is a big
deal, but can you explain a little more about what you're seeing when this error
occurs, before we just paper over it?

Neil

> -- 
> Thomas
>
  
Bruce Richardson Sept. 18, 2014, 12:35 p.m. UTC | #3
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Horman [mailto:nhorman@tuxdriver.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 1:25 PM
> To: Thomas Monjalon
> Cc: Richardson, Bruce; dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: fix compile error with gcc4.4 (used RHEL
> 6)
> 
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 01:09:16PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > The refcnt field is contained within an anonymous union within the mbuf
> > > data structure, and gcc 4.4 gives an error about an unknown field unless
> > > the initialiser for the field is contained within extra braces.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> >
> > Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
> >
> > Thanks Bruce, it is now applied.
> 
> Hang on here, we use anonymous unions all the time in RHEL6, and make
> assignments to them frequently, and the compiler doesn't complain (see the
> dropcount variable in sk_buff for an example).  Not saying that this is a big
> deal, but can you explain a little more about what you're seeing when this error
> occurs, before we just paper over it?
> 

Originally reported on RHEL6 as a build failure. When I use gcc4.4 on Fedora 20, I get the following without this change:

  CC ixgbe_rxtx_vec.o
== Build lib/librte_table
/home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c: In function 'ixgbe_rxq_vec_setup':
/home/bruce/dpdk.org/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c:726: error: unknown field 'refcnt' specified in initializer
compilation terminated due to -Wfatal-errors.
make[5]: *** [ixgbe_rxtx_vec.o] Error 1
make[4]: *** [librte_pmd_ixgbe] Error 2
make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[3]: *** [lib] Error 2
make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
make[1]: *** [x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc_install] Error 2
make: *** [install] Error 2

Regards,
/Bruce
  

Patch

diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c
index a6f7fdf..203ddf7 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx_vec.c
@@ -723,7 +723,7 @@  ixgbe_rxq_vec_setup(struct igb_rx_queue *rxq)
 		.nb_segs = 1,
 		.data_off = RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM,
 #ifdef RTE_MBUF_REFCNT
-		.refcnt = 1,
+		{ .refcnt = 1, }
 #endif
 	};