Re: 2.4.19-pre10-ac2, compile warnings/failures

[David Ford]

It's been brought up over and over the last couple of years.  GCC 
started warning about it quite a while ago and it's been named as a bad 
form.  Patches to fix various things have been submitted sporadically 
for a long time as well.  Future versions of GCC will mark it as an error.

David

Greg KH wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 06:59:36PM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, David Ford wrote:
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>>>People, please don't do things like:
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>>>[bad use of doublequotes]
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>>>Patches keep going in to fix this.
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>>>[good use of doublequotes]
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>>The same applies to 2.5. Can someone write a perl script that treats it so 
>>anonymous that it can find these buggy places?
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>And could someone actually _tell_ the maintainers of these drivers that
>there is a problem?  And what compiler version causes it?
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>This the first I've heard of this problem.
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>greg k-h
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