linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: LLVMLinux: Adapt warnings for compilation with clang

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Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:17:37 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	behanw@...verseincode.com
Cc:	mmarek@...e.cz, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, sparse@...isli.org,
	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	dwmw2@...radead.org, pageexec@...email.hu,
	Jan-Simon Möller <dl9pf@....de>,
	Mark Charlebois <mcharleb@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: LLVMLinux: Adapt warnings for compilation
 with clang

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 05:08:40PM -0800, behanw@...verseincode.com wrote:
 
 > When compiling kernel with clang, disable warnings which are too noisy, and
 > add the clang flag catch-undefined-behavior.
 >  
 > +# Clang
 > +warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, initializer-overrides)
 > +warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-value)
 > +warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, format)
 > +warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, unknown-warning-option)
 > +warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, self-assign)
 > +warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, sign-compare)
 > +warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, format-zero-length)
 > +warning-1 += $(call cc-disable-warning, uninitialized)
 > +warning-1 += $(call cc-option, -fcatch-undefined-behavior)

Do you have a pointer to an example log-file from before this change ?
I'm curious for eg, which self-assign warnings are showing up,
because I've been fixing up the ones that Coverity found, of which
there are only a dozen or so left iirc.

Some of the others may also be interesting.

	Dave

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