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Commit f6b5f1a5 authored by Guenter Roeck's avatar Guenter Roeck Committed by Linus Torvalds
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compiler.h: Introduce absolute_pointer macro



absolute_pointer() disassociates a pointer from its originating symbol
type and context. Use it to prevent compiler warnings/errors such as

  drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/82596.c: In function 'i82596_probe':
  arch/m68k/include/asm/string.h:72:25: error:
	'__builtin_memcpy' reading 6 bytes from a region of size 0 [-Werror=stringop-overread]

Such warnings may be reported by gcc 11.x for string and memory
operations on fixed addresses.

Suggested-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 6880fa6c
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