Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings

2009-08-06 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 29, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Scott, > > In message <20090728225244.ga8...@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> you > wrote: >> >> The patch title is bad -- it's not disabling warnings, it's >> disabling an >> aspect of C99 that the code is incompatible with (and which is

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings

2009-07-29 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Wed, 2009-07-29 at 07:47 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Scott, > > In message <20090728225244.ga8...@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> you wrote: > > > > The patch title is bad -- it's not disabling warnings, it's disabling an > > aspect of C99 that the code is incompatible with (and which is pr

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings

2009-07-28 Thread Kumar Gala
On Jul 29, 2009, at 12:47 AM, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Scott, > > In message <20090728225244.ga8...@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> you > wrote: >> >> The patch title is bad -- it's not disabling warnings, it's >> disabling an >> aspect of C99 that the code is incompatible with (and which is

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings

2009-07-28 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Scott, In message <20090728225244.ga8...@b07421-ec1.am.freescale.net> you wrote: > > The patch title is bad -- it's not disabling warnings, it's disabling an > aspect of C99 that the code is incompatible with (and which is pretty > questionable in the first place with such low level code). No

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings

2009-07-28 Thread Scott Wood
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 11:26:18PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Kenneth Johansson, > > In message <1248453626.8967.27.ca...@localhost.localdomain> you wrote: > > > > > Well, if you think fixing the problems is "paper taping over the > > > issue", then how do you call NOT fixing the problems

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings

2009-07-26 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Kenneth Johansson, In message <1248453626.8967.27.ca...@localhost.localdomain> you wrote: > > > Well, if you think fixing the problems is "paper taping over the > > issue", then how do you call NOT fixing the problems and shutting off > > the warnings? > > Well he removed the optimization so

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings

2009-07-24 Thread Kenneth Johansson
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 21:06 +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > Dear Kumar Gala, > > In message <1247495041-8605-3-git-send-email-ga...@kernel.crashing.org> you > wrote: > > The version of dlmalloc we are using generates a fair number of warnings > > of the following form: > > > > warning: dereferenci

Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings

2009-07-23 Thread Wolfgang Denk
Dear Kumar Gala, In message <1247495041-8605-3-git-send-email-ga...@kernel.crashing.org> you wrote: > The version of dlmalloc we are using generates a fair number of warnings > of the following form: > > warning: dereferencing pointer '({anonymous})' does break strict-aliasing > rules > > Tryi

[U-Boot] [PATCH] dlmalloc: Ignore gcc4.4 compiler warnings

2009-07-13 Thread Kumar Gala
The version of dlmalloc we are using generates a fair number of warnings of the following form: warning: dereferencing pointer '({anonymous})' does break strict-aliasing rules Trying to fix these is just paper taping over the issue and we really just need to look into a new malloc implementation.