>宛先: adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com, dev <dev@dpdk.org>, Gowrishankar
>Muthukrishnan <gowrishanka...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Chao Zhu
><chao...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>送信元: Christian Ehrhardt
>送信者: "dev"
>日付: 2018/08/30 07:00PM
>Cc: Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org>, Thomas Monjalon
><thom...@mellanox.com>, Christian Ehrhardt
><christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
>件名: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ppc64: fix compilation of when AltiVec is
>enabled
>
>The definition of almost any newer standard like --stc=c11 will drop
>__APPLCE_ALTIVEC__ which otherwise would be defined.
>If that is the case then altivec.h will redefine bool to a type
>conflicting with those defined by stdbool.h.
>
>This breaks compilation of 18.08 on ppc64 like:
> mlx5_nl_flow.c:407:17: error: incompatible types when assigning to
>type
> ‘__vector __bool int’ {aka ‘__vector(4) __bool int’} from type
>‘int’
> in_port_id_set = false;
>
>Other alternatives were pursued on [1] but they always ended up being
>more
>complex than what would be appropriate for the issue we face.
>
>[1]:
>INVALID URI REMOVED
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>g&r=EZR6Jx10q0q3dTopeH3WIQ&m=bbU1KVc1ZvNW9Rz7B0MLHfS0f0oZv35d2mpRpHO0
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>
>Change-Id: I1ed56da954e4951b9d120ca2ac0c0c218b4a0140
>Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
>---
> .../common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_memcpy.h | 11
>+++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
>diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_memcpy.h
>b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_memcpy.h
>index 75f74897b..0b3b89b56 100644
>--- a/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_memcpy.h
>+++ b/lib/librte_eal/common/include/arch/ppc_64/rte_memcpy.h
>@@ -37,6 +37,17 @@
> #include <string.h>
> /*To include altivec.h, GCC version must >= 4.8 */
> #include <altivec.h>
>+/*
>+ * Compilation workaround for PPC64 targets when AltiVec is fully
>+ * enabled e.g. with std=c11. Otherwise there would be a type
>conflict
>+ * of "bool" between stdbool and altivec.
>+ */
>+#if defined(__PPC64__) && !defined(__APPLE_ALTIVEC__)
>+ #undef bool
>+ /* redefine as in stdbool.h */
>+ #define bool _Bool
>+#endif
>+
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> extern "C" {
>--
>2.17.1
>
>
>
Hi,
I could reproduce the issue you reported in 18.08 with my ppc64le box with
RedHat 7.5 and GCC4.8.
The patch resolved the issue in my environment. Thanks!
I am a bit newbie in dpdk-dev, but I will try contacting Chao and other IBM
guys... Sorry for our slow reply.
Regards,
Takeshi
