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Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390 (7/13): gcc 3.3 adaptions.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:39, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And yes, gcc could do the work necessary to only give the warning if it 
> actually has reason to believe that the code is wrong. As it is, it gives 
> the warning for code that is good.

gcc gives the warning only when you ask it to annoy you. Seems a good trade off. There
are about 15 bug fixes in 2.4.21-pre4ac4,ac5,ac6 solely from that, all real bugs and some
very non obvious
 
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