Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:20:54 +0100 (CET)
From: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
        x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Add extra gcc checks
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On Sun, 20 Feb 2011, Borislav Petkov wrote:

> Add a 'W=1' Makefile switch which adds additional checking per build
> object.
> 
> The idea behind this option is targeted at developers who, in the
> process of writing their code, want to do the occasional
> 
> make W=1 [target.o]
> 
> and let gcc do more extensive code checking for them. Then, they
> could eyeball the output for valid gcc warnings about various
> bugs/discrepancies which are not reported during the normal build
> process.
> 

I like this. I often modify the Makefile to add something similar to this 
for my local builds. This will save me having to do that in the future.

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