From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161542AbWJDQWb (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:22:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161543AbWJDQWb (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:22:31 -0400 Received: from wohnheim.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.233.138]:42372 "EHLO wohnheim.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161542AbWJDQWa (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:22:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 18:19:19 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Randy Dunlap , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: Announce: gcc bogus warning repository Message-ID: <20061004161919.GB4096@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <451FC657.6090603@garzik.org> <20061001100747.d1842273.rdunlap@xenotime.net> <451FF8ED.9080507@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <451FF8ED.9080507@garzik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 1 October 2006 13:20:45 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > If you have to grep useful stuff out of the noise, you've already lost. My initial thought was to agree. And I still almost agree with this statement. Almost, because every so often, it makes sense to see a shipload of warnings and manually weed through them all. 99% will be false positives, but there is the remaining 1% indicating real bugs. Of course, once these have been dealt with, the warnings give 100% noise and 0% useful output. It is time to wait another year or four before enough bugs have accumulated to make it worth the effort again. That said, if you need to grep every day, you've definitely lost. Jörn -- Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. -- Doug MacIlroy