[coreboot] libpayload alloc() gcc 4.6.2 bug?

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

Am 29.02.2012 08:39 schrieb Patrick Georgi:
> Am 28.02.2012 23:06, schrieb Marc Jones:
>> I found this bug building tint with libpayload. libpayload is built
>> with defconfig and using the same coreboot crosstools gcc. The bug
>> happens in the first call to alloc() when the first header of the
>> first region is installed. The header memory location is checked,
>> found to be 0, and then loaded with the header. The bug is that the
>> original value of the location is used after the memory was updated.
>> It should have been reloaded. It is pretty easy to see in the
>> disassembly below.
> workaround: mark setup() __attribute__((noinline))
>
> The proper fix is to clean up the various casts so the aliasing based
> optimizations in gcc do the right thing.

Can't you use __attribute__((may_alias)) for the affected variables?

Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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