Re: annoying new gcc 4.6.0 warnings.
From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Apr 21 2011 - 16:46:42 EST
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 01:37:36PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> > +KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wunused-but-set-variable
>
> Well I didn't test it, but presumably if you need the $(call cc-option,
> -Wno-unused-but-set-variable), you would need similar here.
Third time's the charm ?
Dave
--
Disable the new -Wunused-but-set-variable that was added in gcc 4.6.0
It produces more false positives than useful warnings.
This can still be enabled using W=1
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index b967b96..29e16f2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -559,6 +559,8 @@ ifndef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector)
endif
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -Wno-unused-but-set-variable)
+
ifdef CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER
KBUILD_CFLAGS += -fno-omit-frame-pointer -fno-optimize-sibling-calls
else
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.build b/scripts/Makefile.build
index d5f925a..30627ab 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.build
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.build
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wpointer-arith
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wredundant-decls
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wshadow
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += -Wswitch-default
+KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += $(call cc-option, -Wunused-but-set-variable)
KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS += $(call cc-option, -Wvla,)
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(KBUILD_EXTRA_WARNINGS)
endif
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