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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.15-pre4 - merge with Alan
To: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik)
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:41:03 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au (Neil Brown),
        torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds),
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> Neil Brown wrote:
> > I'm still lamenting the loss of the "-Werror" compile switch....
> 
> Me too but the kernel won't build basic stuff in fs/*.c code on 64-bit
> platforms with it enabled...

Or some 32bit setups, in part because gcc isnt always very bright about
warnings on non-use of variables. I'd rather have a small number of expected
warnings than a pile of ifdefs and = 0 assignments that later mask a real
bug
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