Re: 2.6.18-rc1-mm1: drivers/ide/pci/jmicron.c warning

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On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:02:57AM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:52:58PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >   CC      drivers/ide/pci/jmicron.o
> > drivers/ide/pci/jmicron.c: In function ???ata66_jmicron???:
> > drivers/ide/pci/jmicron.c:99: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
> 
> If your gcc does this please file a gcc bug report
> 
> > At least from gcc's perspective, this warning is correct, and it should 
> > therefore be fixed.
> 
> No. port_type is an enum. Each enum value in question is present in the 
> switch (and gcc knows this), each has a return. Your compiler is buggy.

I'm not a C expert myself, so I asked a gcc developer on irc.

The problem is that C allows you to assign other values than the ones 
listed in the enum to the variable.

cu
Adrian

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