Linux: Losing Bugs In Warnings

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 4, 2006 2:54 AM EDT
KernelTrap; By Jeremy Andrews 		Mail this story
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Jeff Garzik suggested that more recent versions of GCC have been getting more and more verbose, "the level of warnings in a kernel build has lately increased to the point where it is hiding bugs and otherwise making life difficult." He started a new"gccbug" branch in which he's been silencing bogus warning after verifying that they are indeed bogus, "the audit has already uncovered several minor bugs, lending credence to my theory that too many warnings hides bugs."

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