On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Richard B. Johnson wrote:
>
> > I think you must keep these warnings in! There are many bugs
> > that these uncover uncluding loops that don't terminate correctly
> > but seem to work for "most all" cases. These are the hard-to-find
> > bugs that hit you six months after release.
>
> This was my change. Obviously the warning is a good idea in general,
> but I don't see the point of scrolling through hundreds of lines
> with the same warning in someone else's code. I actually plan to fix
> these warnings in arch/s390 and drivers/s390 as well as include/
> and make the s390 kernel compile with -Werror, but the rest looks
> more like a task for the Janitors. Note that before gcc-3.3,
> -Wsign-compare has not been part of -Wall.
>
Yep. There are a lot of things, not part of -Wall. To find 'need coffee'
errors, I use:
-Wall -Werror -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings -Wshadow \
-Wsign-compare -Wno-trigraphs
plus...
-fno-builtin -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer.
I also use -march=1486 so it will boot. Some machines don't like
`cmov` and other stuff the compiler may emit.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.18 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.
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