linux-kernel - Re: "eliminate warn_on_slowpath()" change causes many gcc-3.2.3 warnings

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Message-ID: <497248AE.10500@zytor.com>
Date:	Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:07:58 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@...uu.se>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "eliminate warn_on_slowpath()" change causes many gcc-3.2.3	warnings

Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 
> How about something utterly evil? (Since you can't pass a zero-length
> string to a printf attributed function either...)
> 

?!

*That* should definitely be permitted... anything else is an utter bug.

On the other hand, having a global empty string in the kernel isn't a
bad thing.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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