Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown inwarnings

From: Lee Revell
Date: Sun Feb 26 2006 - 17:48:45 EST


On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 22:32 +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Al Viro moaned:
> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:46:32PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> >> (i.e., there's a reason that warning uses the word *might*.)
> >
> > The bug is in spewing tons of false positives, reducing S/N on that
> > warning to nearly useless level. Note that in this case actually
> > missing some would be more useful if what remains is less diluted
> > by crap.
>
> I think this might be <http://gcc.gnu.org/PR5035>.
>

Al posted a quite compelling analysis of this bug a while back that's
much better than anything in that bug report, of course I can't find it
right now.

Lee

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