Re: PATCH: compile the kernel with -Werror

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 08:26, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
>> A full kernel compilation, especially when using the -j switch to
>> make, can cause warnings to "fly off the screen" without the user
>> noticing them.

On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:24:03PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> May I suggest the user learns to use the command line properly. Adding
> -Werror doesn't help because gcc emits far too many bogus warnings for
> that.

This is not my favorite motive for -Werror. I prefer the "force people
to write cleaner code" aspect of it, but gcc's warnings are evil...

Cheers,
Bill