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File ipxe-build-Disable-gcc-address-of-packed-member-warning.patch of Package qemu.14390

From 0ee72a15887b838d967c3b05070d5ad86f0d729a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2019 10:29:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [build] Disable gcc address of packed member warning

GCC 9.0 introduces a new warning for using pointers to packed
structure and union members. ipxe code is replete with this usage,
partly because the architectures it is designed for handle unaligned
accesses. Therefore this warning is not very helpful and since the
default build considers warnings to be errors, needs to be disabled.

[BR: BSC#1121464]
Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@suse.com>
--- a/src/Makefile.housekeeping
+++ b/src/Makefile.housekeeping
@@ -179,6 +179,19 @@ WNA_FLAGS := $(shell $(WNA_TEST) && $(EC
 WORKAROUND_CFLAGS += $(WNA_FLAGS)
 endif
 
+# GCC 9.0 introduces a new warning for using pointers to packed
+# structure and union members. ipxe code is replete with this usage,
+# partly because the architectures it is designed for handle unaligned
+# accesses. Therefore this warning is not very helpful and since the 
+# default build considers warnings to be errors, needs to be disabled.
+#
+ifeq ($(CCTYPE),gcc)
+WNAOPM_TEST = $(CC) -Waddress-of-packed-member -x c -c /dev/null -o /dev/null \
+		  >/dev/null 2>&1
+WNAOPM_FLAGS := $(shell $(WNAOPM_TEST) && $(ECHO) '-Wno-address-of-packed-member')
+WORKAROUND_CFLAGS += $(WNAOPM_FLAGS)
+endif
+
 # Some versions of gas choke on division operators, treating them as
 # comment markers.  Specifying --divide will work around this problem,
 # but isn't available on older gas versions.

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