Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 19:25:28 +0100 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG> To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, Josh MacDonald <jmacd@cs.berkeley.edu>, bde@zeta.org.au Subject: Warnings in the kernel ( was Re: GNU binutils port ) Message-ID: <1803.830456728@palmer.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 24 Apr 1996 21:43:47 BST." <3851.830378627@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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I wrote in message ID <3851.830378627@palmer.demon.co.uk>: > I wouldn't be. I've got a development tree with over half those > warnings fixed, and none of them (well, okay, one) could have done > anything nasty. And from a quick glance through, most of the rest are > printf() formatting warnings, as GCC can't understand some of the > special printf contructs available in the kernel. I just had a thought ... there are one HELL of a lot more errors that GCC -Wall **CAN'T** pick up on as they are just bad algorithms which can cause more serious problems than most of the problems that -Wall can pick up on... Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD - Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info.
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