Re: Compile performance of Linux kernels in mainline gcc

[Andi Kleen <ak at suse dot de>]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 09:48:53AM -0400, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> 
> On Oct 30, 2004, at 3:28 AM, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >
> >>The warnings from the 4.0 snapshot were pretty messed up. It always
> >>printed binary garbage for function names. I assume there is already 
> >>a PR
> >>for it.
> >>
> >>It printed a lot of new incomprehensible warnings like:
> >>fs/reiserfs/bitmap.c:756: warning: pointer targets in passing
> >>argument 1 of <garbage> Apart from being incorrect English what is
> >>that supposed to mean?
> >
> >is definitely *not* a problem I have seen before.  Unless someone
> >knows better, I recommend you file a PR (with a reduced test case if
> >possible).  The diagnostic GCC was trying to issue is probably
> >
> > warning: pointer targets in passing argument %d of %s differ in 
> >signedness
> 
> Yes the problem is that his terminal does not support UTF8 and his
> LC_* are set to UTF8, a non bug.

Huh?  While that's possible why does gcc need UTF-8 to print standard C
identifiers? 

-Andi