fbmon: work around compiler bug in gcc-2.4.2

There's some odd bug in gcc-4.2 where it miscompiles a simple loop whent
he loop counter is of type 'unsigned char' and it should count to 128.

The compiler will incorrectly decide that a trivial loop like this:

	unsigned char i, ...

	for (i = 0; i < 128; i++) {
		..

is endless, and will compile it to a single instruction that just
branches to itself.

This was triggered by the addition of '-fno-strict-overflow', and we
could play games with compiler versions and go back to '-fwrapv'
instead, but the trivial way to avoid it is to just make the loop
induction variable be an 'int' instead.

Thanks to Krzysztof Oledzki for reporting and testing and to Troy Moure
for digging through assembler differences and finding it.

Reported-and-tested-by: Krzysztof Oledzki <olel@ans.pl>
Found-by: Troy Moure <twmoure@szypr.net>
Gcc-bug-acked-by: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbmon.c b/drivers/video/fbmon.c
index 5c1a2c01778fe6e195df9405d0409d7a1a2a09f9..9ae9cd32bd065b1142d63c9975ad51fd1a1972e5 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/video/fbmon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbmon.c
@@ -256,8 +256,8 @@ static void fix_edid(unsigned char *edid, int fix)
 
 static int edid_checksum(unsigned char *edid)
 {
-       unsigned char i, csum = 0, all_null = 0;
-       int err = 0, fix = check_edid(edid);
+       unsigned char csum = 0, all_null = 0;
+       int i, err = 0, fix = check_edid(edid);
 
        if (fix)
                fix_edid(edid, fix);