From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@actcom.co.il>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH: compile the kernel with -Werror
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 06:34:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020713133424.GF21551@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1026570243.9958.81.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>
On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 08:26, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
>> A full kernel compilation, especially when using the -j switch to
>> make, can cause warnings to "fly off the screen" without the user
>> noticing them.
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:24:03PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> May I suggest the user learns to use the command line properly. Adding
> -Werror doesn't help because gcc emits far too many bogus warnings for
> that.
This is not my favorite motive for -Werror. I prefer the "force people
to write cleaner code" aspect of it, but gcc's warnings are evil...
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-13 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-13 7:26 PATCH: compile the kernel with -Werror Muli Ben-Yehuda
2002-07-13 8:02 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-13 7:43 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2002-07-13 14:49 ` Thunder from the hill
2002-07-13 8:17 ` Mike Galbraith
2002-07-13 13:10 ` Kenneth Johansson
2002-07-13 13:41 ` Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
2002-07-13 14:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-16 20:36 ` James Antill
2002-07-13 14:24 ` Alan Cox
2002-07-13 13:34 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-13 18:46 ` Linus Torvalds
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-07-13 21:31 Dan Kegel
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