On Sünndag 19 Dezember 2004 20:47, 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.

Maybe someone can make gcc-4 build logs available similar to the ones at
http://developer.osdl.org/cherry/compile/. In many cases it's not even
necessary to produce the warning with your own compiler in order to fix
it. This could also be combined with warnings from the various sparse-like
code checkers.

 Arnd <><