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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Cc: kaos@ocs.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sam@ravnborg.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12] Add -Wno-pointer-sign to HOSTCFLAGS
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 10:58:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050619105833.C6499@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200506190923.j5J9Nbq0011676@harpo.it.uu.se>; from mikpe@csd.uu.se on Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 11:23:37AM +0200

On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 11:23:37AM +0200, Mikael Pettersson wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:50:03 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> >Compiling 2.6.12 with gcc 4.0.0 (FC4) gets lots of warnings for the
> >programs in the scripts directory.  Add -Wno-pointer-sign to HOSTCFLAGS
> >to suppress them.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
> >
> >Index: 2.6.12/Makefile
> >===================================================================
> >--- 2.6.12.orig/Makefile	2005-06-18 15:21:18.000000000 +1000
> >+++ 2.6.12/Makefile	2005-06-19 11:43:15.876218980 +1000
> >@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ CONFIG_SHELL := $(shell if [ -x "$$BASH"
> > HOSTCC  	= gcc
> > HOSTCXX  	= g++
> > HOSTCFLAGS	= -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
> >+# disable pointer signedness warnings in gcc 4.0
> >+HOSTCFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-pointer-sign,)
> > HOSTCXXFLAGS	= -O2
> 
> Please don't. Bogus code should be fixed, not hidden.

cc-option checks to see if the flag is supported by $(CC) which could
be a completely different compiler from $(HOSTCC).  Hence the above
can incorrectly supply/fail to supply the argument.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-19  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-19  9:23 [patch 2.6.12] Add -Wno-pointer-sign to HOSTCFLAGS Mikael Pettersson
2005-06-19  9:58 ` Russell King [this message]
2005-06-19 10:32 ` Keith Owens
2005-07-03 19:22   ` Sam Ravnborg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-06-19  1:50 Keith Owens
2005-06-20  2:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-07-03 19:26   ` Sam Ravnborg

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