From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>,
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 22:14:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060226221401.GS27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wtfh3i9z.fsf@hades.wkstn.nix>
On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:46:32PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 26 Feb 2006, Lee Revell announced authoritatively:
> > What GCC version? 4.x still has the bug where it spews false warnings
> > about things being used uninitialized.
>
> `4.x still has the bug where it cannot solve the Halting Problem'?
>
> (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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-26 22:14 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 [this message]
2006-02-26 22:32 ` Nix
2006-02-26 22:50 ` Lee Revell
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
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