On Sunday, July 21, 2013 09:35:40 AM Thomas Fjellstrom wrote: > If it helps, I'm running a fresh install of Debian Sid with gcc 4.8.1. I've > noticed that each newer successive version of gcc gets more strict with what > code it accepts without warning, or error. A lot of my only somewhat old code > tends to have a lot more warnings. Especially that signedness warning. Yes, this is the case; I have 4.7.3 > > It also looked like that that driver or section of the kernel was compiling > with -Werror. I haven't verrified that but I remember seeing "treating all > warnings as errors" at one point. > You are right, I have this in Makefile: (if one turn on extra warnings with -W, there will be lots of false alarms, that's why this ifeq()) ifeq (, $(findstring -W,$(EXTRA_CFLAGS))) subdir-ccflags-y += -Werror endif Thanks, Vladimir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html