On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 07:47:59PM +0000, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 08:09:03PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Here's a proposed janitor project if anybody is interested:
> > 
> > The current gcc 4.0 snapshots include some more warnings in -Wall
> > and changed some existing ones which makes a kernel compilation quite noisy. 
> 
> I think it would get more takers if people didn't have to compile a new
> gcc.  If we had a list of -W... flags in older gccs that could simulate
> 90% of the warnings, this would make it possible for more people to work
> on it.

Problem is that some of the warnings are completely new in gcc 4 and
cannot be enabled with options in older versions. Also with a reasonable
modern machine (Athlon or P4) it won't take that long to do the gcc
compilation.

-Andi