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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sdhci: 'scratch' may be used uninitialized
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:25:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081006082541.GA5001@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081006092722.414a7200@mjolnir.drzeus.cx>


* Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> wrote:

> > Correct. Would you be interested in sending a patch for a 
> > (default-off) debug feature that allows the disabling of all the gcc 
> > annotations? That way we can do regular sweeps to determine whether 
> > old annotations are still relevant on latest and greatest GCC.
> 
> How would you find the ones that are no longer needed though?

ideally gcc should not emit _any_ bogus warning. Life is too short to 
comb through crappy warnings and to keep in mind which ones are relevant 
and which ones are not. compiler-intel.h does not make use of the 
annotations for example.

> Perhaps we could make it so that uninitialized_var() itself emits a 
> warning. That way you could turn that option on and check that you 
> always have pairs of warnings.

ok - when CONFIG_CC_DEBUG_ALLOW_WARNINGS=y - and then the work flow 
would be to go for single-occurance warnings and eliminate them (because 
their annotation is moot).

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-06  8:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01  7:57 [PATCH -tip] pcm_native: label out defined but not used Steven Noonan
2008-10-01  7:57 ` [PATCH -tip] sdhci: 'scratch' may be used uninitialized Steven Noonan
2008-10-01  7:57   ` [PATCH -tip] drivers/serial/8250.c: 'i' " Steven Noonan
2008-10-01  8:01     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01  8:16       ` Steven Noonan
2008-10-01  8:29         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01  8:36           ` Steven Noonan
2008-10-01  8:47             ` [PATCH] " Steven Noonan
2008-10-01 21:36               ` Alan Cox
2008-10-02  9:02                 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01  8:48             ` [PATCH -tip] " Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01 10:34         ` Alan Cox
2008-10-01 10:33       ` Alan Cox
2008-10-01 10:57         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01 15:41           ` Alan Cox
2008-10-02  9:00             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01  8:00   ` [PATCH -tip] sdhci: 'scratch' " Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01  8:14     ` Steven Noonan
2008-10-01  8:33       ` Steven Noonan
2008-10-01  8:35         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01  8:50           ` [PATCH] " Steven Noonan
2008-10-04 19:57             ` Pierre Ossman
2008-10-05 14:28             ` Adrian Bunk
2008-10-05 22:53               ` Steven Noonan
2008-10-05 23:16                 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-10-05 23:48                   ` Steven Noonan
2008-10-06  5:59                     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-10-06  6:30                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-06  7:27                       ` Pierre Ossman
2008-10-06  8:25                         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-10-01  7:59 ` [PATCH -tip] pcm_native: label out defined but not used Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01  8:12   ` Steven Noonan
2008-10-01  8:13   ` Takashi Iwai
2008-10-01  8:32     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-01  8:56       ` Takashi Iwai

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