[klibc] -fno-strict-overflow in klibc?

[Mike Waychison]

Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:57:31AM -0700, Mike Waychison wrote:
>> Toying around with new compilers and old kernels, we noticed that the  
>> upstream kernel over that last year or so added -fno-strict-overflow to  
>> CFLAGS so that newer compilers would allow overflow detection on pointer  
>> arithmetic (and integer arithmetic) to continue working.
>>
>> Should we be setting this flag for klibc as well?
> 
> Obvious question.
> How many new warnings does it trigger now?
> 
> If zero then yes.
> If one or more then no until they are fixed, or at least most are fixed.

Well, I'm not 100% certain we should expect warnings.   For instance, 
compiling older kernels that didn't have this option set in CFLAGS 
resulted in code getting eliminated as 'dead code' without a warning 
emitted.