Re: [PATCH] Makefiles: Disable unused-variable warning

[Michal Hocko]

On Sun 08-01-12 16:01:17, Michal Marek wrote:
> Dne 27.12.2011 14:57, Michal Hocko napsal(a):
> > Anyway, I am wondering why unused-but-set-variable is disabled while
> > unused-variable is enabled.
> 
> unused-but-set-variable was disabled, because it was a new warning in
> gcc 4.6 and produced too much noise relatively to its severity. A make
> W=1 build of x86_64_defconfig gives:
> $ grep -c 'Wunused-but-set-variable' log
> 77
> $ grep -c 'Wunused-variable' log
> 0
> 
> More exotic configuration will probably result in a couple of unused
> variable warnings, but that IMO no reason to disable them globally.

OK.

> > Shouldn't we just disable it as well rather
> > than workaround this in the code? The warning is just pure noise in this
> > case.
> 
> If it's noise in a particular case, there is always the option to add
> 
> CFLAGS_memcontrol.o := $(call cc-disable-warning, unused-variable)

I would like to prevent from local cflags hacks. Moreover the code will
go away so I guess it doesn't make much sense to play tricks here.

> 
> to the respective Makefile.
> 
> Michal

Thanks

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