Re: Compiler warnings

From: Robert Hancock
Date: Wed Nov 19 2008 - 19:42:16 EST

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Alan Cox wrote:

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:16:14 +0100
"Fred ." <eldmannen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I compiled the Linux 2.6.27.6 kernel on Ubuntu 8.10 with gcc (Ubuntu
4.3.2-1ubuntu11) 4.3.2.

Your compiler appears to be faulty. You should report this to Ubuntu

The warnings are valid (they're coming from -Wformat-security) but I don't believe those warnings are normally enabled in kernel compilation. Presumably some Ubuntu gcc patch enables them by default.

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