From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 6 21:22:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEC9C37B401 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 21:22:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.77.116] (helo=gateway.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #4) id 14QN3a-000OxR-00; Wed, 07 Feb 2001 05:22:18 +0000 Received: from buffy.raggedclown.net (buffy.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.2]) by gateway.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Gateway) with ESMTP id EF5C23396A; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 06:20:28 +0100 (CET) Received: by buffy.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mailhost, from userid 500) id 4E26912C4E; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 06:19:44 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 06:19:44 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: Tim McMillen Cc: Wyatt Banks , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kernel configuration question Message-ID: <20010207061944.C1167@raggedclown.net> References: <01020623040701.03509@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <01020623040701.03509@tim.elnsng1.mi.home.com>; from timcm@umich.edu on Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:02:34AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 07, 2001 at 12:02:34AM -0500, Tim McMillen wrote: > > They are just that, warnings. Messages to tell the coders to try to > clean things up, not errors really. As I heard it, gcc has been > raising the amount that it warns about things. As of the 3.0-Release > series, the FreeBSD kernel compile is much louder about them. > > On Tuesday February 06, 2001 14:00, Wyatt Banks wrote: > > Usually when I use a compiler, I treat all warnings like errors, Mmm, warnings are not errors, although they may point to mis-intentions ! Crank up the warnings enough and gcc will complain about the following comment: /* This is a comment /* that will make gcc bletch, if /* you set the right warnings on */ Cliff p.s. I will leave it to the reader to work out what the complaint is.. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message