Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:21:05 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sched: Remove nested extern |
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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.
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