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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Fred ." <eldmannen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Compiler warnings
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:41:42 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4924B246.1010508@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081119162331.5421a67b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:16:14 +0100
> "Fred ." <eldmannen@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I compiled the Linux 2.6.27.6 kernel on Ubuntu 8.10 with gcc (Ubuntu
>> 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) 4.3.2.
> 
> Your compiler appears to be faulty. You should report this to Ubuntu
> 
The warnings are valid (they're coming from -Wformat-security) but I 
don't believe those warnings are normally enabled in kernel compilation. 
Presumably some Ubuntu gcc patch enables them by default.


      reply	other threads:[~2008-11-20  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-19 16:16 Compiler warnings Fred .
2008-11-19 16:23 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-20  0:41   ` Robert Hancock [this message]

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