Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:14:01 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in warnings
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:46:32PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 26 Feb 2006, Lee Revell announced authoritatively:
> > What GCC version?  4.x still has the bug where it spews false warnings
> > about things being used uninitialized.
> 
> `4.x still has the bug where it cannot solve the Halting Problem'?
> 
> (i.e., there's a reason that warning uses the word *might*.)

The bug is in spewing tons of false positives, reducing S/N on that
warning to nearly useless level.  Note that in this case actually
missing some would be more useful if what remains is less diluted
by crap.
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