[PATCH] TRACING: Fix a copmile warning

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Tue Jul 26 00:44:00 GMT 2011


Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:

>> It seems gcc transforms the conditional from:
>> 
>> if (a != NULL && b != NULL) ...
>> 
>> to
>> 
>> if (b != NULL && a != NULL) ...
>> 
>> In which case the warning is fully valid. I'm not sure what's the C
>> standard guarantee in term of conditional test order. gcc 4.7.0 has
>> the same behavior.
>
> Yes it seems to be doing this :-/
>
> This is a real bug!

To be clear, gcc is not doing that, and this is not a code generation
bug.  It is a warning generation bug; the generated code is correct.

Ian



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