Re: [PATCH perf 0/4] Build fixes for gcc 6

[Markus Trippelsdorf]

On 2016.01.19 at 21:58 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:40:18PM +0100, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> > On 2016.01.19 at 21:32 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > gcc 6 warns about various things in tools/perf  and with -Werror
> > > these turn into build failures.  One of them is a real though not
> > > very serious bug.
> > 
> > I've already send patches for 1,2 and 4. See:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/14/460
> > 
> > Not sure what happened with them. Also your patch number 4 is wrong, you
> > should just delete the semicolon.
> 
> I think that the busy-wait, intentional or not, may be a necessary
> part of the test case.

Well, the author of the code thinks otherwise:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/14/269


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Markus