Re: Suspected bug infilesystems (UFS,ADFS,BEFS,BFS,ReiserFS) relatedto sector_t being unsigned, advice requested

[Hans Reiser]

Oleg Drokin wrote:

> As for why gcc is finding this, but scripts (e.g. smatch) do not is because
> scripts generally know nothing about variable types, so they cannot tell
> this comparison was always false (and since gcc can do this for long time
> already, there is no point in implementing it in scripts anyway).
>  
can we get gcc to issue us a warning?  there might be other stuff 
lurking around also....


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Hans


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