From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 18 10:52:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA11684 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dyson.iquest.net ([198.70.144.127]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA11670 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 10:52:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.7.5/8.6.9) id MAA01571; Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:51:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Dyson Message-Id: <199610181751.MAA01571@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Warning messages while building kernel To: leclaire@venus.net Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 12:51:52 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Andre LeClaire" at Oct 18, 96 12:27:07 pm Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I recently downloaded and installed the kernel developer distribution of > 2.2-961014-SNAP, and built a custom kernel to suit my system's > configuration. During the compilation process, I noticed *MANY* "warning: > comparison between signed and unsigned" messages. There weren't any > errors, though, and the new kernel boots and seems to work OK. Is this > anything to worry about? > This should be in a FAQ somewhere until we get the problem resolved... But don't worry (unless you are a kernel developer.) We started using a new version of gcc, and it is more complete about diagnosing potential problems in code. Ignore them and they'll go away :-). John