Subject: Re: Building 100 kernels; we suck at dependencies and drown in
	warnings
From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:50:19 -0500
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On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 22:32 +0000, Nix wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006, Al Viro moaned:
> > On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 09:46:32PM +0000, Nix wrote:
> >> (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.
> 
> I think this might be <http://gcc.gnu.org/PR5035>.
> 

Al posted a quite compelling analysis of this bug a while back that's
much better than anything in that bug report, of course I can't find it
right now.

Lee

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