From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Sergei Organov" <osv@javad.com>,
"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
"\"J.A. MagallÃÃÃÃón\"" <jamagallon@ono.com>,
"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
"Jeff Garzik" <jeff@garzik.org>,
"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:26:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D5325A.2040502@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702151059090.20368@woody.linux-foundation.org>
On 02/15/2007 08:02 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Think of it this way: in science, a theory is proven to be bad by a
> single undeniable fact just showing that it's wrong.
>
> The same is largely true of a warning. If the warning sometimes
> happens for code that is perfectly fine, the warning is bad.
Slight difference; if a compulsory warning sometimes happens for code
that is perfectly fine, the warning is bad. I do want to be _able_ to
get as many warnings as a compiler can muster though.
Given char's special nature, shouldn't the conclusion of this thread
have long been simply that gcc needs -Wno-char-pointer-sign? (with
whatever default, as far as I'm concerned).
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 4:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-08 15:00 somebody dropped a (warning) bomb Jeff Garzik
2007-02-08 16:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08 18:42 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-08 19:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08 21:10 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-08 21:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08 23:12 ` David Rientjes
2007-02-08 23:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-09 0:24 ` David Rientjes
2007-02-09 0:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-09 0:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-09 0:59 ` David Rientjes
2007-02-09 1:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-09 1:18 ` David Rientjes
2007-02-09 15:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-09 3:27 ` D. Hazelton
2007-02-09 19:54 ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-02-09 12:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-09 13:16 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-02-09 17:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-09 20:29 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-02-09 22:05 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-02-09 22:58 ` Martin Mares
2007-02-12 18:50 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-02-13 15:14 ` Dick Streefland
2007-02-08 21:13 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-02-08 21:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08 22:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-08 22:19 ` Willy Tarreau
2007-02-09 0:03 ` J.A. Magallón
2007-02-09 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-09 12:38 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-09 15:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-12 11:12 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-12 16:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-13 18:06 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-13 18:26 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-13 19:14 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-13 19:43 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-02-13 20:29 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-13 21:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-02-13 23:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-15 13:20 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-15 15:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-15 18:53 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-15 19:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-15 20:23 ` me, not " Oleg Verych
2007-02-16 4:26 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2007-02-19 11:58 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-19 13:58 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-15 22:32 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-02-13 19:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-13 19:59 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-13 20:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-15 15:15 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-13 21:13 ` Rob Landley
2007-02-13 22:21 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-02-14 12:52 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-15 20:06 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-09 15:10 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-08 16:35 ` Kumar Gala
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2007-02-15 20:08 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-02-16 11:21 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-16 14:51 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-02-19 11:56 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-16 12:46 ` Sergei Organov
2007-02-16 17:40 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-02-19 12:17 ` Sergei Organov
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