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

[Oleg Drokin]

Hello!

On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:00:35PM +0300, Hans Reiser wrote:

> >>can we get gcc to issue us a warning?  there might be other stuff 
> >>lurking around also....
> >If you add -W switch to CFLAGS, you'd get A LOT of more warnings.
> >Also just reading manpage on gcc around description of that flag will
> >give you a list of options to individually turn on certain check types.
> >Also gcc 3.3 have this sort of " unsigned < 0 | unsigned > 0" checks on by
> >default, I think.
> Sigh, this means that not one member of our team bothered to compile 
> with -W and cleanup things that were found?  Sad.  This is what happens 

Well, I was doing these sorts of stuff and cleaning all stuff that I thought
was important enough.
Both on kernel code and progs code.
Also reiser4progs include -W switch by default (and -Werror as well) I think.
At least that was the case back in September.

Bye,
    Oleg
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