Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Oct 2006 11:16:48 -0700 | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Subject | Re: Announce: gcc bogus warning repository |
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On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 13:20:45 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Randy Dunlap wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:44:55 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > >> The level of warnings in a kernel build has lately increased to the > >> point where it is hiding bugs and otherwise making life difficult. > >> > >> In particular, recent gcc versions throw warnings when it thinks a > >> variable "MAY be used uninitialized", which is not terribly helpful due > >> to the fact that most of these warnings are bogus. > >> > >> For those that may find this valuable, I have started a git repo that > >> silences these bogus warnings, after careful auditing of code paths to > >> ensure that the warning truly is bogus. > >> > >> The results may be found in the "gccbug" branch of > >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git > >> > >> This repository will NEVER EVER be pushed upstream. It exists solely > >> for those who want to decrease their build noise, thereby exposing true > >> bugs. > >> > >> The audit has already uncovered several minor bugs, lending credence to > >> my theory that too many warnings hides bugs. > > > > I usually build with must_check etc. enabled then grep them > > away if I want to look for other messages. I think that the situation > > is not so disastrous. > > I think it's both sad, and telling, that the high level of build noise > has trained kernel hackers to tune out warnings, and/or build tools of > ever-increasing sophistication just to pick out the useful messages from > all the noise. > > If you have to grep useful stuff out of the noise, you've already lost.
I often build with C=1 (sparse checking), so the amount of output has to be grepped IMO. It's certainly too much to read otherwise. We just have different perspectives, I guess.
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