From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14 assorted warnings
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 00:57:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051031005726.GS7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17253.27399.700034.125453@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 11:53:27AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Gcc will warn on the use of x when in fact it is perfectly OK, and we
> get quite a few of these in compiling a kernel. At a minimum, I would
> like to be able to disable the "may be used uninitialized" warnings
> while still getting the "is used uninitialized" warnings.
Quite. "may be used uninitialized" has _way_ too low S/N ratio - absolute
majority of these warnings are bogus. Moreover, several very common use
patterns reliably trigger them.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-31 0:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-28 7:21 2.6.14 assorted warnings Keith Owens
2005-10-28 7:28 ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-28 7:30 ` Dave Jones
2005-10-28 8:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2005-10-28 8:29 ` Jens Axboe
2005-10-29 5:59 ` Richard Knutsson
2005-10-29 6:03 ` Al Viro
2005-10-28 8:10 ` Richard Knutsson
2005-10-30 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2005-10-30 22:25 ` Al Viro
2005-10-30 22:32 ` Al Viro
2005-10-30 22:29 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-10-31 0:53 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-10-31 0:57 ` Al Viro [this message]
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