On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 08:59:32PM +0000, Rustad, Mark D wrote: > Because I have found that enabling many warnings helps identify problems > in code and it has been my standard practice since about 1999 to do so. > The compiler warnings are really just another form of static analysis, > and I use it routinely on every compile. Here is how routinely: I have > W=1 in my environment, W=12 is just too painful. I would change that > default to W=12 if it wasn't insane to do so.
Many warnings are just plain insane and stupid. They're not helping anybody. There's a very good reason many are disabled. I'm sure you can find some entertaining discussions on the topic if you search the LKML archives. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
