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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>,
	arnd@arndb.de, davej@redhat.com, kaos@ocs.com.au,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.14 assorted warnings
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2005 07:03:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051029060344.GB7992@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43630FDA.7010101@student.ltu.se>

On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 07:59:54AM +0200, Richard Knutsson wrote:
> And on an philosophical plane, can/should we put that responsibility onto 
> the compiler? Is it not "easier" to make the functions take care
> of its own duties (like the *nix-way) and make the bvec_alloc_bs initialize 
> idx (even if it has to be an error-value)?
> 
> I'm thinking something like this. Seems alright?

No.  Working around the false positives in compiler warning system is
*wrong*.  _IF_ it cares to inline the function and generate the
warnings based on that, it is responsible for doing it right.

It's a gcc bug, plain and simple.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-29  6:04 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 [this message]
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

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