[LinuxBIOS] Compiling errors for flashrom

[Christian Sühs]

Hello @ all,

I try to compile flashrom on my older Suse Distro 8.2 with Kernel 2.4.20 
and gcc 3.3 Suse Prerelease, but it fails because of the -Werror Flag.

e.g flashrom_enable.c line 408 and 417
warning: comparison between signed and unsigned ... bla, bla

breaks the process.

If I delete -Werror in the makefile. flashrom is build, but with many 
warnings shown below in mostly each file to compile.

Also, flashrom doesn't work for me, I get an error

"LinuxBios Table not found"

and then a

Segmention Fault

What goes wrong? Is my gcc version to old?
pciutils are installed.

regards Chris

[Richard Smith]

> Also, flashrom doesn't work for me, I get an error
>
> "LinuxBios Table not found"
>
> and then a
>
> Segmention Fault

Do you have a linuxbios table in your image?
> What goes wrong? Is my gcc version to old?
> pciutils are installed.

Not too old but perhaps too new.  Try 3.2 or 2.95 and see if you get
the same results.

--
Richard A. Smith

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Christian Sühs <[e-mail]> [051214 17:21]:
> Hello @ all,
>
> I try to compile flashrom on my older Suse Distro 8.2 with Kernel 2.4.20 
> and gcc 3.3 Suse Prerelease, but it fails because of the -Werror Flag.
>
> e.g flashrom_enable.c line 408 and 417
> warning: comparison between signed and unsigned ... bla, bla

flashrom_enable.c:
394:        int i;
408:        for (i = 0; i < sizeof(mbenables) / sizeof(mbenables[0]); i++) {
417:        for (i = 0; i < sizeof(enables) / sizeof(enables[0]) && (!dev);

sizeof is defined unsigned and i is signed. I wonder why this is no
error with later compilers anymore. Can you make i unsigned int in line
394 and see if the code compiles then your compiler?
> If I delete -Werror in the makefile. flashrom is build, but with many 
> warnings shown below in mostly each file to compile.

can you send me a complete log of the warnings? 

I suggest to update to a newer SUSE version. The problems will 
likely vanish.
> Also, flashrom doesn't work for me, I get an error
>
> "LinuxBios Table not found"
>
> and then a
>
> Segmention Fault

Can you try to run the code in gdb to see where it segfaults? You need
to change -Os to -O -g

Stefan

[Christian Sühs]

> sizeof is defined unsigned and i is signed. I wonder why this is no
> error with later compilers anymore. Can you make i unsigned int in line
> 394 and see if the code compiles then your compiler?

Ok, at the moment I try this. Changed line 394 in unsigned i and the 
compiler goes to the next c files, the next problem is in jedec.c line 
190 comparison bla, bla. changed line 188 in unsigned i and the compiler 
goes to the next. than comparison bla, bla in sst28sf040.c line 88
changed line 86 in unsigned i and so on.

I will change each line who is a comparison failure, I think there are a 
lot more :D
>

> can you send me a complete log of the warnings?

I send you a list of each line in the c files which results in an error 
(warning)
> Can you try to run the code in gdb to see where it segfaults? You need
> to change -Os to -O -g

later :D i have saved an unworking version.
> Stefan

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Christian Sühs <[e-mail]> [051215 22:40]:
> > can you send me a complete log of the warnings?
>
> I send you a list of each line in the c files which results in an error 
> (warning)

Ah :-) If you are fixing it for your gcc 3.3, you're of course welcome
to send an "svn diff" output as well :-)
> > Can you try to run the code in gdb to see where it segfaults? You need
> > to change -Os to -O -g
>
> later :D i have saved an unworking version.

No hurry ;-)

Stefan

[Christian Sühs]

Stefan Reinauer schrieb:
> * Christian Sühs <[e-mail]> [051215 22:40]:
> > > can you send me a complete log of the warnings?
> >
> > I send you a list of each line in the c files which results in an error 
> > (warning)
>
> Ah :-) If you are fixing it for your gcc 3.3, you're of course welcome
> to send an "svn diff" output as well :-)

Ok, no errors or warnings with gcc 3.3 Suse prerelease with following 
changes:

flashrom_enable.c change int i to unsigned int i in line 394
jedec.c change int i to unsigned i in line 188

same for
sst28sf040.c line 86,
am29f040b.c line 54,
82802ab.c line 154,
sst_fwhub.c line 83,

lbtable.c change static int to static unsigned int in line 55 for 
count_lb_records(...),

flash_rom.c change unsigned long size to long size in line 47

the tool seems to work, currently I can't test it properly.
The change in the last file could be make complications,
but getpagesize() returns int ...