On Sunday, July 21, 2013 09:35:40 AM Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> If it helps, I'm running a fresh install of Debian Sid with gcc 4.8.1. I've
> noticed that each newer successive version of gcc gets more strict with what
> code it accepts without warning, or error. A lot of my only somewhat old code
> tends to have a lot more warnings. Especially that signedness warning.
Yes, this is the case; I have 4.7.3
>
> It also looked like that that driver or section of the kernel was compiling
> with -Werror. I haven't verrified that but I remember seeing "treating all
> warnings as errors" at one point.
>
You are right, I have this in Makefile:
(if one turn on extra warnings with -W, there will be lots of false alarms,
that's why this ifeq())
ifeq (, $(findstring -W,$(EXTRA_CFLAGS)))
subdir-ccflags-y += -Werror
endif
Thanks, Vladimir
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