[dpdk-dev] Multiple compilation failures in recent commits on branch master.

[Dan Gora]

Hi All,

I sent a patch yesterday to fix a compilation failure in the
test_external_mem test and I pulled origin yesterday and now there is
another compilation failure which was introduced in commit
c3e0a706fd7595733cf51 (net/dpaa2: read hardware provided MAC for DPNI
devices):

/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/drivers/net/dpaa2/dpaa2_ethdev.c:1849:9:
error: missing initializer for field ‘addr_bytes’ of ‘struct
ether_addr’ [-Werror=missing-
field-initializers]
 struct ether_addr phy_mac = {}, prime_mac = {};
        ^
In file included from
/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_ethdev.h:158:0,
                from
/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_ethdev_driver.h:18,
                from
/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/drivers/net/dpaa2/dpaa2_ethdev.c:12:
/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_ether.h:58:10:
note: ‘addr_bytes’ declared here
 uint8_t addr_bytes[ETHER_ADDR_LEN]; /**< Addr bytes in tx order */
         ^
/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/drivers/net/dpaa2/dpaa2_ethdev.c:1849:9:
error: missing initializer for field ‘addr_bytes’ of ‘struct
ether_addr’ [-Werror=missing-
field-initializers]
 struct ether_addr phy_mac = {}, prime_mac = {};
        ^
In file included from
/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_ethdev.h:158:0,
                from
/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_ethdev_driver.h:18,
                from
/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/drivers/net/dpaa2/dpaa2_ethdev.c:12:
/home/dg/Network_Fastpaths/dpdk/latest/x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc/include/rte_ether.h:58:10:
note: ‘addr_bytes’ declared here
 uint8_t addr_bytes[ETHER_ADDR_LEN]; /**< Addr bytes in tx order */
         ^
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Is something up where the automated compilation tests are not working?
 Is gcc 4.8.5 not supported any more?

I'm using stock OpenSuse 42.3 with gcc 4.8.5:

=> gcc --version
gcc (SUSE Linux) 4.8.5
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This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
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