From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 20:03:24 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] janitor project: fix gcc 4 warnings Message-Id: <20041219200324.GA44435@muc.de> MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============66395528106330126==" List-Id: References: <20041219190903.GA30192@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20041219190903.GA30192@muc.de> To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org --===============66395528106330126== Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline 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 --===============66395528106330126== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors --===============66395528106330126==--