Re: [patch 2.6.12] Add -Wno-pointer-sign to HOSTCFLAGS

[Sam Ravnborg]

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 <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 
> 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
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