Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932383AbZAQVLr (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:11:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751382AbZAQVLj (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:11:39 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:33393 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751186AbZAQVLi (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:11:38 -0500 Message-ID: <497248AE.10500@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:07:58 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kyle McMartin CC: Ingo Molnar , Mikael Pettersson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: "eliminate warn_on_slowpath()" change causes many gcc-3.2.3 warnings References: <200901171519.n0HFJZuf028704@harpo.it.uu.se> <20090117161817.GA10825@elte.hu> <49723912.6020108@zytor.com> <20090117204421.GA1700@bombadil.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20090117204421.GA1700@bombadil.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 670 Lines: 24 Kyle McMartin wrote: > > How about something utterly evil? (Since you can't pass a zero-length > string to a printf attributed function either...) > ?! *That* should definitely be permitted... anything else is an utter bug. On the other hand, having a global empty string in the kernel isn't a bad thing. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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/