From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 21:39:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B47106566C for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:39:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1618FC23 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:39:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D55F71CC033; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:39:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:39:40 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Juraj Lutter Message-ID: <20080411213940.GA27222@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <47FFC509.5050502@gmail.com> <47FFD7D4.5010007@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47FFD7D4.5010007@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: stable@freebsd.org, pluknet Subject: Re: buildkernel problem with RELENG_7 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:39:41 -0000 On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:27:48PM +0200, Juraj Lutter wrote: > On the other hand, aren't those uninitialized variables potentionally a > "bug"? Potentially, yes, but not guaranteed. The existing -STABLE tree emits a very large number of warnings. I'm a strong advocate of using -Werror (treat warnings as errors), and I've always wondered why the -STABLE tree didn't default to this behaviour. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |