linux-kernel - Re: make-bogus-warnings-go-away tree [was: 2.6.18-mm3]

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Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2006 18:51:32 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Subject: Re: make-bogus-warnings-go-away tree [was: 2.6.18-mm3]

On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 12:44:46PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >What we'd need would be some -Wno-may-be-used-uninitialized gcc option 
> >that turns off the "may be may be used uninitialized" warnings but not 
> >the "is used uninitialized" warnings.
> >
> >This would:
> >- give us a way to silence these warnings
> >- allow people to see the warnings if they want to
> >- not increase the maintenance overhead
> 
> Some of those warnings do indicate real bugs.

Some of the -Wmissing-prototypes warnings do also indicate real bugs.

But although I'm working on cleaning up the -Wmissing-prototypes 
warnings for a year or two, I doubt you'd be happy if we'd enable 
-Wmissing-prototypes now...

> 	Jeff

cu
Adrian

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