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Subject: Re: 2.4.19-pre10-ac2, compile warnings/failures
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It's been brought up over and over the last couple of years.  GCC 
started warning about it quite a while ago and it's been named as a bad 
form.  Patches to fix various things have been submitted sporadically 
for a long time as well.  Future versions of GCC will mark it as an error.

David

Greg KH wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:59:36PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, David Ford wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>People, please don't do things like:
>>>
>>>[bad use of doublequotes]
>>>
>>>Patches keep going in to fix this.
>>>
>>>[good use of doublequotes]
>>>      
>>>
>>The same applies to 2.5. Can someone write a perl script that treats it so 
>>anonymous that it can find these buggy places?
>>    
>>
>
>And could someone actually _tell_ the maintainers of these drivers that
>there is a problem?  And what compiler version causes it?
>
>This the first I've heard of this problem.
>
>greg k-h
>  
>

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