On Wed, Dec 06, 2023 at 05:12:40PM +0100, Ferry Toth wrote: > Hi > > On 05-12-2023 19:28, Alan Stern wrote: > > In the long run, it may turn out that trying to detect memory usage > > patterns that could cause problems for architectures other than the one > > currently running is not workable. Certainly it is a bad idea to have a > > Maybe. But while debugging code on your platform it is a good thing to get > warnings for potential issues on other platforms. Oh, absolutely! It's definitely a good thing. I'm just saying that doing it may not be practical -- there may be too many false positives (as in this bug report) and false negatives. > In this case we (I) got misled by the warning message itself. That should be > easy enough to improve. I don't think so. Issuing incorrect warnings that should be ignored is a very bad idea, no matter what the wording is. After seeing a few messages like that, people learn to expect them -- and then they ignore the valid warnings along with the incorrect ones. Alan Stern
