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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.

  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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