linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH perf 0/4] Build fixes for gcc 6

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Date:	Tue, 19 Jan 2016 21:58:48 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@...ppelsdorf.de>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH perf 0/4] Build fixes for gcc 6

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:40:18PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> On 2016.01.19 at 21:32 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > gcc 6 warns about various things in tools/perf  and with -Werror
> > these turn into build failures.  One of them is a real though not
> > very serious bug.
> 
> I've already send patches for 1,2 and 4. See:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/14/460
> 
> Not sure what happened with them. Also your patch number 4 is wrong, you
> should just delete the semicolon.

I think that the busy-wait, intentional or not, may be a necessary
part of the test case.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
When in doubt, use brute force. - Ken Thompson

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