Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc4

[Martin Bligh]

Russell King wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:14:32AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
>
> > > But I've become innoculated against warnings, just because we have too 
> > > many of the totally useless noise about deprecation and crud, and ppc has 
> > > it's own set of bogus compiler-and-linker-generated warnings..
> > >
> > > At some point we should get rid of all the "politeness" warnings, just 
> > > because they can end up hiding the _real_ ones.
> >
> > Yay! Couldn't agree more. Does this mean you'll take patches for all the
> > uninitialized variable crap from gcc 4.x ?
>
>
> Why not apply pressure to gcc people to fix their compiler warning bugs
> instead?

I did. They didn't. Reality is a bitch.

To be fair, it says "variable *may* be uninitialised", which is correct,
in that it's not able to follow through functions. likely / unlikely
also broke it, but they fixed that in 4.2.x

M.

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