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gcc-9: silence 'address-of-packed-member' warning
authorAndy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 29 Nov 2019 17:47:59 +0000 (19:47 +0200)
committerLothar Waßmann <LW@KARO-electronics.de>
Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:03:14 +0000 (12:03 +0200)
commit6d7e3f066d2b977b02f6a471e749030d62ae5bde
tree8fa18209e985e26f4bb3d1d8450c1de690838746
parentfefe948bd2731b641eabe15ae0790dc31a2a8534
gcc-9: silence 'address-of-packed-member' warning

GCC 9.x starts complaining about potential misalignment of the pointer to
the array (in this case alignment=2) in the packed (alignment=1) structures.

Repeating Linus' Torvalds commit 6f303d60534c in the Linux kernel.

Original commit message:

  We already did this for clang, but now gcc has that warning too.
  Yes, yes, the address may be unaligned.  And that's kind of the point.

This in particular hides the warnings like

drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:545:23: warning: taking address of packed member of ‘struct usb_string_descriptor’ may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]
  545 |    collect_langs(sp, s->wData);

drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:550:24: warning: taking address of packed member of ‘struct usb_string_descriptor’ may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]
  550 |     collect_langs(sp, s->wData);

drivers/usb/gadget/composite.c:555:25: warning: taking address of packed member of ‘struct usb_string_descriptor’ may result in an unaligned pointer value [-Waddress-of-packed-member]
  555 |      collect_langs(sp, s->wData);

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
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