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Dr Andrew John Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Wed May 11 07:55:52 PDT 2011

On 15:26 Wed 11 May , Andrew Haley wrote:

On 05/11/2011 02:43 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote: > On 09:44 Wed 11 May , Andrew Haley wrote: >> >> It looks like this has been a warning in gcc since forever. I have no >> idea why it generates an error on Debian, though. So, I guess there's >> no more to be done, but I don't like mysteries like this: they tend to >> come back to bite you. > > You already said... because HotSpot builds with -Werror.

But that doesn't explain it. That file isn't built with -Wformat, which is what causes the warning. So why does it error out on Debian? Maybe Debian forces -Wall ?

Ah right. Yes I think Debian enables more warnings. This may be why some of the patches in IcedTea from doko are there.

Andrew.

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