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Message-Id: <1159717214.24767.3.camel@c-67-180-230-165.hsd1.ca.comcast.net> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:40:13 -0700 From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...sta.com> To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Subject: Re: Announce: gcc bogus warning repository On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 09:44 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > The level of warnings in a kernel build has lately increased to the > point where it is hiding bugs and otherwise making life difficult. > > In particular, recent gcc versions throw warnings when it thinks a > variable "MAY be used uninitialized", which is not terribly helpful due > to the fact that most of these warnings are bogus. > > For those that may find this valuable, I have started a git repo that > silences these bogus warnings, after careful auditing of code paths to > ensure that the warning truly is bogus. > > The results may be found in the "gccbug" branch of > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git > Steven Rostedt an I worked on this problem in May. Steven came up with, a nice way to handle these warnings, which doesn't increase code size. Here's the post if your interested. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/11/50 Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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