Re: warnings compiling emacs28 with gcc 12.1

[Jose A. Ortega Ruiz]

On Thu, Jul 28 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: "Jose A. Ortega Ruiz" <jao@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 04:32:39 +0100
>> 
>> I compiled today the emacs28 branch with gcc version
>> 'gcc (Debian 12.1.0-7) 12.1.0' and configured with
>
> The lesson to be learned here is never use NN.1 version of GCC with
> too high level of warnings: you get a lot of noise due to bugs in an
> immature GCC version.

Fair enough.  A curious fact is that the master branch compiles cleanly
with the same GCC version, without any warning at all in fact.  I guess
someone already took the time to pacify non-sense warnings.

[...]

> I wouldn't worry about these.

I won't, thanks.

jao
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