On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 23:52 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Joe, Hi Geert. > Does gcc 8.x gives again the same warnings as my venerable old gcc 4.1.2, > that no one else seems to see? Or will the real bugs I detect this way stay > unfixed? Polyculture is a good thing, also in compilers. I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Patches that fix defects and patches that fix warnings both generally get applied. > Reverted locally (incl. the follow-up), applied Andrew's fix, detected new > warnings in v4.18+, and sent patches where it makes sense... Thanks for that. cheers, Joe