On Thu, 2018-08-23 at 23:52 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

Hi Joe,

Hi Geert.

Does gcc 8.x gives again the same warnings as my venerable old gcc 4.1.2,
that no one else seems to see? Or will the real bugs I detect this way stay
unfixed? Polyculture is a good thing, also in compilers.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
Patches that fix defects and patches that fix warnings
both generally get applied.

Reverted locally (incl. the follow-up), applied Andrew's fix, detected new
warnings in v4.18+, and sent patches where it makes sense...

Thanks for that.

cheers, Joe