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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	BorislavPetkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: annoying new gcc 4.6.0 warnings.
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 16:45:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110421204549.GA20508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DB09590.1040709@caviumnetworks.com>

On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:37:36PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
 > > +KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wunused-but-set-variable
 > 
 > Well I didn't test it, but presumably if you need the $(call cc-option, 
 > -Wno-unused-but-set-variable), you would need similar here.
 
Third time's the charm ?

	Dave

-- 

Disable the new -Wunused-but-set-variable that was added in gcc 4.6.0
It produces more false positives than useful warnings.

This can still be enabled using W=1

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b967b96..29e16f2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -559,6 +559,8 @@ ifndef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
 endif
 
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wno-unused-but-set-variable)
+
 ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
 KBUILD_CFLAGS	+= -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
 else
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index d5f925a..30627ab 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wpointer-arith
 KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wredundant-decls
 KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wshadow
 KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wswitch-default
+KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
 KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += $(call cc-option, -Wvla,)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS)
 endif

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-21 20:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-21 19:21 annoying new gcc 4.6.0 warnings Dave Jones
2011-04-21 19:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-21 19:39   ` David Daney
2011-04-21 19:44     ` Joe Perches
2011-04-21 19:58       ` Dave Jones
2011-04-21 20:08         ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-04-21 20:27           ` Dave Jones
2011-04-21 20:37             ` David Daney
2011-04-21 20:45               ` Dave Jones [this message]
2011-04-21 20:56                 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-04-21 21:28                   ` Dave Jones
2011-04-21 21:42                     ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-04-29 15:02                     ` Michal Marek
2011-04-21 20:09         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-04-21 20:15           ` Dave Jones
2011-04-21 20:30 ` Stratos Psomadakis
2011-04-21 21:10   ` Sam Ravnborg

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