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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, dwalker@mvista.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 23:45:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060510224549.GI27946@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060510.153129.122741274.davem@davemloft.net>

On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:31:29PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 23:10:24 +0100
> 
> > But that's the argument in favour of using diff, not shutting the
> > bogus warnings up...
> 
> IMHO, the tree should build with -Werror without exception.
> Once you have that basis, new ones will not show up easily
> and the hard part of the battle has been won.
> 
> Yes, people will post a lot of bogus versions of warning fixes, but
> we're already good at flaming those off already :-)

Alternatively, gcc could get saner.  Seriously, some very common patterns
trigger that shit - e.g. function that returns error or 0 and stores
value to *pointer_argument in case of success.  It's a clear regression
in 4.x and IMO should be treated as gcc bug.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-10 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-10  2:56 [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 10:34 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 14:31   ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 15:09     ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 15:06       ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 15:24         ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 16:24           ` Adrian Bunk
2006-05-10 17:18             ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 17:45               ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 18:27                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-05-10 19:07                   ` Serge Belyshev
2006-05-10 20:24                 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-05-10 20:35                   ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 20:36                   ` Adrian Bunk
2006-05-10 20:53                     ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 19:20             ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 19:49               ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 20:44                 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 21:11                   ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 21:20                     ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 21:33                       ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 21:39                         ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 21:45                           ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 21:48                             ` Al Viro
2006-05-11  6:36                       ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-10 15:39         ` Alan Cox
2006-05-10 15:38           ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 16:21             ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 16:37               ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 16:42                 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 17:25                   ` Daniel Walker
2006-05-10 19:55                 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-05-10 22:03               ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-10 22:10                 ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 22:31                   ` David S. Miller
2006-05-10 22:45                     ` Al Viro [this message]
2006-05-10 23:05                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-10 23:20                         ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 23:45                           ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-11  1:28                             ` Al Viro
2006-05-11  8:11                               ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-11 10:07                                 ` [PATCH -mm] introduce a false positive macro Steven Rostedt
2006-05-11 20:40                             ` [PATCH -mm] sys_semctl gcc 4.1 warning fix Adrian Bunk
2006-05-11 21:14                               ` Al Viro
2006-05-10 23:06                     ` Roland Dreier
2006-05-10 22:30                 ` David S. Miller
2006-05-11  2:58                   ` Mike Galbraith

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