Compile performance of Linux kernels in mainline gcc

[Andrew Pinski]

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.

-- Pinski