Re: annoying new gcc 4.6.0 warnings.

From: Sam Ravnborg
Date: Thu Apr 21 2011 - 16:08:41 EST


On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 03:58:02PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 12:44:46PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 12:39 -0700, David Daney wrote:
> > > Would it make any sense to add a config option to enable the spew for
> > > those that wanted to see it?
> >
> > Add it to make W=1 instead?
> > See commit 4a5838ad9d2d
>
> This patch does that. Though I question the usefulness of W=1.
> I just built powernow-k8.o with W=1, and got 4030 lines of output.
> That's just insane.

It was discussed to do:
W=1 - the most usefull warnings
W=2 - the less usefull warnings
W=3 - the noise

Or somthing like that.
But no-one stepped up doing the classification then.
Should be simple to do.

My gcc (4.3.2) barfed over -Wno-unused-but-set-variable.
So your patch needs to check if the option is supported.

Sam
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