From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261501AbVGCTYJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:24:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261502AbVGCTYJ (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:24:09 -0400 Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk ([195.41.46.236]:35679 "EHLO pfepb.post.tele.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261501AbVGCTYC (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jul 2005 15:24:02 -0400 Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 21:26:37 +0200 From: Sam Ravnborg To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Keith Owens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12] Add -Wno-pointer-sign to HOSTCFLAGS Message-ID: <20050703192637.GC8052@mars.ravnborg.org> References: <20663.1119145803@ocs3.ocs.com.au> <42B623C1.7070004@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B623C1.7070004@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 10:02:41PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Keith Owens wrote: > >Compiling 2.6.12 with gcc 4.0.0 (FC4) gets lots of warnings for the > >programs in the scripts directory. Add -Wno-pointer-sign to HOSTCFLAGS > >to suppress them. > > > >Signed-off-by: Keith Owens > > > Although I am a bit nervous about papering over these warnings without > addressing them... I still ACK the patch, because gcc4 on FC4 does > indeed spew a bunch of noise. > > Have you (or anyone) looked into the "root cause" of these warnings? I've receive a few pathes to scripts/ fixing this. They almost all just used casts to hide the warning but some included real fixes. They are all lost for now though. Sam