From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "eliminate warn_on_slowpath()" change causes many gcc-3.2.3 warnings
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:07:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497248AE.10500@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090117204421.GA1700@bombadil.infradead.org>
Kyle McMartin wrote:
>
> How about something utterly evil? (Since you can't pass a zero-length
> string to a printf attributed function either...)
>
?!
*That* should definitely be permitted... anything else is an utter bug.
On the other hand, having a global empty string in the kernel isn't a
bad thing.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-17 21:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-17 15:19 "eliminate warn_on_slowpath()" change causes many gcc-3.2.3 warnings Mikael Pettersson
2009-01-17 16:18 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-17 20:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-17 20:44 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-17 20:57 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-17 21:07 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-01-17 21:38 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-01-17 23:37 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-17 23:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-18 0:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-01-18 0:10 ` H. Peter Anvin
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