public inbox for linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:50:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1140994219.24141.197.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fym53g5m.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>

On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 22:32 +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Al Viro moaned:
> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:46:32PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> >> (i.e., there's a reason that warning uses the word *might*.)
> > 
> > The bug is in spewing tons of false positives, reducing S/N on that
> > warning to nearly useless level.  Note that in this case actually
> > missing some would be more useful if what remains is less diluted
> > by crap.
> 
> I think this might be <http://gcc.gnu.org/PR5035>.
> 

Al posted a quite compelling analysis of this bug a while back that's
much better than anything in that bug report, of course I can't find it
right now.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-26 22:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-26 16:21 Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 16:31 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 16:35   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 19:31     ` Dave Jones
2006-02-26 19:43       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 20:11         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 23:45         ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-02-27  2:02         ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-26 19:30   ` Dave Jones
2006-02-26 17:00 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-26 17:29   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 17:41     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-02-26 18:08       ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 17:38 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 18:21 ` Diego Calleja
2006-02-26 18:45   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 19:03     ` Diego Calleja
2006-02-26 20:42 ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26 20:44   ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 21:46   ` Nix
2006-02-26 21:49     ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 21:53       ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26 21:56         ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-26 22:08           ` Lee Revell
2006-02-26 22:12             ` Jesper Juhl
2006-02-27 17:25               ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-02-26 22:14     ` Al Viro
2006-02-26 22:32       ` Nix
2006-02-26 22:50         ` Lee Revell [this message]
2006-02-26 21:14 ` Grant Coady
2006-02-27 12:56   ` David Greaves
2006-02-28 10:30     ` Roman Zippel
2006-02-26 22:43 ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-03-02 20:25   ` Jesper Juhl

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1140994219.24141.197.camel@mindpipe \
    --to=rlrevell@joe-job.com \
    --cc=jesper.juhl@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=nix@esperi.org.uk \
    --cc=viro@ftp.linux.org.uk \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox