linux-kernel - Re: -W -Wno-unused -Wno-sign-compare compile flags

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Message-ID: <20061029172535.GG27968@stusta.de>
Date:	Sun, 29 Oct 2006 18:25:35 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	predator@....ru
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: -W -Wno-unused -Wno-sign-compare compile flags

On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 05:22:48PM +0300, predator@....ru wrote:
> Hello !linux-kernel
> 
> Does anybody try to compile latest linux-kernel with -W 
> -Wno-unused -Wno-sign-compare CFLAGS? There is a tons of 
> warnings :(
> Recent versions of grsecurity patches adds this flags to 
> default. When I asked to grsec developers, why did they do 
> that, they answered: to show, how messy linux code is...
> Is there any objections about it?

-W gives many warnings, some of them indicate possible improvements 
while some of them warn about things that are perfectly OK.

While getting such warnings is a task that is sometimes worked on, it's 
neither realistic nor required to get all warnings with -W fixed.

cu
Adrian

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