Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423147AbXBPE0f (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:26:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161751AbXBPE0f (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:26:35 -0500 Received: from smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl ([213.51.130.200]:42261 "EHLO smtpq1.groni1.gr.home.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161750AbXBPE0e (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:26:34 -0500 Message-ID: <45D5325A.2040502@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:26:02 +0100 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Sergei Organov , Pekka Enberg , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22J=2EA=2E_Magall=C3=C3=C3=C3=C3=C2=B3n=22?= , Jan Engelhardt , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: somebody dropped a (warning) bomb References: <45CB3B28.60102@garzik.org> <87abznsdyo.fsf@javad.com> <874pprr5nn.fsf@javad.com> <87ps8end9b.fsf@javad.com> <84144f020702131026q2af1afd6vbcd2708d7b7b9907@mail.gmail.com> <87bqjxooog.fsf@javad.com> <84144f020702131143r767aa40blb97a39b40bee73b8@mail.gmail.com> <87fy99n6mf.fsf@javad.com> <87hctnlfqz.fsf@javad.com> <87k5yjjlrj.fsf@javad.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 935 Lines: 22 On 02/15/2007 08:02 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Think of it this way: in science, a theory is proven to be bad by a > single undeniable fact just showing that it's wrong. > > The same is largely true of a warning. If the warning sometimes > happens for code that is perfectly fine, the warning is bad. Slight difference; if a compulsory warning sometimes happens for code that is perfectly fine, the warning is bad. I do want to be _able_ to get as many warnings as a compiler can muster though. Given char's special nature, shouldn't the conclusion of this thread have long been simply that gcc needs -Wno-char-pointer-sign? (with whatever default, as far as I'm concerned). Rene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/