Re: compiler warnings on the buildfarm

Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 12. Juli 2007 15:25 schrieb Stefan Kaltenbrunner:
>>> a lot of those are simply noise (like the LOOP VECTORIZED stuff from the
>>> icc boxes or the "statement not reached" spam from the sun compilers)
>>> but others might indicate real issues.
>>> To find warnings that might be a real problem we might want to look into
>>> suppressing those - if possible - using compiler switches.
>> It would be good to determine an appropriate set of compiler switches to
>> reduce the warnings to a reasonable level.
>
> yeah once we have determined that this whole experiment is useful it
> should be pretty easy to tweak the compiler switches for the non-gcc
> compilers (mostly icc and sun studio seem to be the ones that generate
> excessive output).
>

For sun studio -erroff=E_STATEMENT_NOT_REACHED is useful there. If you
want to determine warning tags for each warning add -errtags.

Zdenek