tree 4d70b71497e1135b300c45f2e3dc244b0735acc9
parent 4519277ca2e11ed728754efbe13e1a444c479da3
author Jacob Garber <jgarber1@ualberta.ca> 1570044908 -0600
committer Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> 1580748360 +0000

xcompile: Disable null pointer optimizations

According to the C standard, accessing the NULL pointer (memory at
address zero) is undefined behaviour, and so GCC is allowed to optimize
it out. Of course, accessing this memory location is sometimes
necessary, so this optimization can be disabled using
-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks. This is already done in coreboot, but
adding it to xcompile will also disable it for all the payloads. For
example, coreinfo compiled with LTO libpayload crashes when this flag
isn't set, presumably because the compiler is optimizing something out
that it shouldn't.

Change-Id: I4492277f02418ade3fe7a75304e8e0611f49ef36
Signed-off-by: Jacob Garber <jgarber1@ualberta.ca>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/38289
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>