[EXT] Re: [PATCH v3] vhost: fix build issues with GCC 12

[Maxime Coquelin]

On 10/6/22 10:22, Amit Prakash Shukla wrote:
> Hi Maxime,
> 
> Compiled this patch with aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 12.2.0 and it compiles fine.

Thanks Amit!

> Thanks,
> Amit Shukla
> 
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>> From: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2022 1:21 PM
>> To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
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>> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3] vhost: fix build issues with GCC 12
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>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On 10/6/22 02:01, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>>> On Wed,  5 Oct 2022 22:35:24 +0200
>>> Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> In practice, it would never happen since 'pkt->pkt_len' is unlikely
>>>> to be close to UINT32_MAX, but let's just change 'size' to uint64_t
>>>> to make the compiler happy without having to add runtime checks.
>>>
>>>
>>> Would the standard typedef size_t work since that is what sizeof() returns.
>>>
>>
>> I'm not sure it would not create issues on 32 bits architectures build given
>> size_t is 32bits in this case if I'm not mistaken, as it adds something to a u32,
>> so it could wrap to 0.
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