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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: Compiler warnings
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:41:42 -0600
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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.