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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] Cgroup writeback support for 4.2
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Hi Tejun,

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
>> That's why I keep on using gcc 4.1.2: it still gives build warnings for
>> many "used uninitialized" cases that later gcc versions let pass silently.
>>
>> Granted, some of these are false positives (that's why it was disabled in
>> later gcc versions), but some of these are valid and real bugs.
>
> That's kinda surprising. My impression has been that later gcc
> versions are doing a lot better job both at actually detecting
> problematic ones and avoiding false positives. I'm surprised that
> 4.1.2 is still catching uninitialized usages later gcc's (and other
> static analyzers) can't. Can you roughly say how often it detects
> actual problems that later ones can't?

A handful every merge window. That's why I keep on doing this :-)

Since the release of v4.1:
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/25/334
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/25/337
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/24/88

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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