willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote on 18.04.00 in <20000418122749.W15697@thepuffingroup.com>:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 12:48:53PM +0200, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > MIN() is a _bad_ thing to use. It _always_ gets the sign wrong. Sorry,
> > > but that's how it is. It makes people think that "oh, it takes the
> > > minimum of two numbers" and at the same time it makes people completely
> > > forget signedness issues.
> >
> > GCC -Wall warns about comparisons between signed and unsigned.
> > Is that not good enough?
>
> the header files need to be cleaned up in order to be able to use -Wall
> without getting scads of bogus warnings.
I thought the kernel *is* compiled with -Wall, and has been for a long
time? And I certainly don't remember scads of bogus warnings from kernel
compiles. (Incidentally, the same is true for my userland compiles.)
>Some of that work has been
> done but not all of it. I'll get to it sometime if no-one beats me to it.
> (hint, it's the signal delivery stuff).
More details, please.
MfG Kai
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