[PATCH] Use -Wno-pointer-sign for gcc 4.0
Compiling an allyesconfig kernel straight with a gcc 4.0 snapshot gives nearly 10k new warnings like: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 5 of `cpuid' differ in signedness Since the sheer number of these warnings was too much even for the most determined kernel janitors (I actually asked ;-) and I don't think it's a very serious issue to have these mismatches I submitted an new option to gcc to disable it. It was incorporated in gcc mainline now. This patch makes the kernel compilation use it. There are still quite a lot of new warnings with 4.0 (mostly about uninitialized variables), but the compile log looks much nicer nnow. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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