Re: [GIT] kbuild fixes

[Floris Kraak <randakar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Sam Ravnborg<sam@ravnborg.org> wrote:
>
> - disabling of -Wformat-security
>  We looked at it and 'fixing' the warnings was not pleasant

The alternative is roughly 136 'trivial' patches to shut them all up*
and one to turn this flag on unconditionally to prevent hackers from
adding more of them after that ;-)

The alternative to *that* is improving on this silly flag:
- Either finding some way to teach GCC how to not emit warnings about
usage that is entirely sane.
- Or finding some way to teach some other build tool to catch unsafe
usage without polluting the build with false positives.

Take your pick.

*) While I can't give you 100% certainty about every warning I know
for a fact the vast majority of the warnings at least consists of
false positives so there'd be no other benefit from them except a
quieter kernel build on certain distro's ;-)

Regards,
Floris
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