[PATCH v16 1/3] fs: Add trusted_for(2) syscall implementation and related sysctl

Geert Uytterhoeven geert at linux-m68k.org
Sun Nov 14 15:32:02 UTC 2021


Hi Alejandro,

On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 8:56 PM Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)
<alx.manpages at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/13/21 14:02, Mickaël Salaün wrote:
> >> TL;DR:
> >>
> >> ISO C specifies that for the following code:
> >>
> >>      enum foo {BAR};
> >>
> >>      enum foo foobar;
> >>
> >> typeof(foo)    shall be int
> >> typeof(foobar) is implementation-defined
> >
> > I tested with some version of GCC (from 4.9 to 11) and clang (10 and 11)
> > with different optimizations and the related sizes are at least the same
> > as for the int type.
>
> GCC has -fshort-enums to make enum types be as short as possible.  I
> expected -Os to turn this on, since it saves space, but it doesn't.

Changing optimization level must not change the ABI, else debugging
would become even more of a nightmare.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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