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DateWed, 07 Jan 2004 12:26:09 +0300
FromHans Reiser <>
SubjectRe: Suspected bug infilesystems (UFS,ADFS,BEFS,BFS,ReiserFS) related to sector_t being unsigned, advice requested
Oleg Drokin wrote:

>
>
>As for why gcc is finding this, but scripts (e.g. smatch) do not is because
>scripts generally know nothing about variable types, so they cannot tell
>this comparison was always false (and since gcc can do this for long time
>already, there is no point in implementing it in scripts anyway).
> 
>
can we get gcc to issue us a warning?  there might be other stuff 
lurking around also....

-- 
Hans


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