Re: [PATCH] linux/find: ignore -Wtype-limits to reduce W=2 warnings by 34% tree-wide

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Tue Apr 26 2022 - 14:56:29 EST


On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 6:16 PM Vincent Mailhol
<mailhol.vincent@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +__diag_push();
> +__diag_ignore(GCC, 8, "-Wtype-limits",
> + "GENMASK(size - 1, 0) yields 'comparison of unsigned expression in < 0 is always false' which is OK");
> +

Are you sure gcc-8 is the correct version to check for? If older
versions had this
already, you may have to add the magic bits in the compiler-gcc.h header.

Otherwise, this looks sensible to me.

Arnd