Re: Announce: gcc bogus warning repository

linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-10-02T11:39:20Z

On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Daniel Walker wrote:

> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 09:44 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> The level of warnings in a kernel build has lately increased to the
>> point where it is hiding bugs and otherwise making life difficult.
>>
>> In particular, recent gcc versions throw warnings when it thinks a
>> variable "MAY be used uninitialized", which is not terribly helpful due
>> to the fact that most of these warnings are bogus.
>>
>> For those that may find this valuable, I have started a git repo that
>> silences these bogus warnings, after careful auditing of code paths to
>> ensure that the warning truly is bogus.
>>
>> The results may be found in the "gccbug" branch of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git
>>
>
> Steven Rostedt an I worked on this problem in May. Steven came up with,
> a nice way to handle these warnings, which doesn't increase code size.
> Here's the post if your interested.
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/5/11/50
>
> Daniel

I wouldn't hide this in a macro, though. This could cause future
maintainers a lot of problems after code is revised. If you are
going to assign a variable's value to itself to eliminate compiler
warnings, please do it openly, preferably with a comment.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.16.24 on an i686 machine (5592.72 BogoMips).
New book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/
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