Re: [patch 2.6.12] Add -Wno-pointer-sign to HOSTCFLAGS

From: Mikael Pettersson
Date: Sun Jun 19 2005 - 04:25:58 EST


On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 11:50:03 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
>Compiling 2.6.12 with gcc 4.0.0 (FC4) gets lots of warnings for the
>programs in the scripts directory. Add -Wno-pointer-sign to HOSTCFLAGS
>to suppress them.
>
>Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>Index: 2.6.12/Makefile
>===================================================================
>--- 2.6.12.orig/Makefile 2005-06-18 15:21:18.000000000 +1000
>+++ 2.6.12/Makefile 2005-06-19 11:43:15.876218980 +1000
>@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ CONFIG_SHELL := $(shell if [ -x "$$BASH"
> HOSTCC = gcc
> HOSTCXX = g++
> HOSTCFLAGS = -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
>+# disable pointer signedness warnings in gcc 4.0
>+HOSTCFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-Wno-pointer-sign,)
> HOSTCXXFLAGS = -O2

Please don't. Bogus code should be fixed, not hidden.
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