Warnings -- so close

[Jonathan Gibbons]

John Pampuch wrote:
> Jon-
>
> Lest I be too skeptical... Did the build finish? :)

Scepticism is good. The build completed, but I don't believe it built 
images. I'll try a full images build tomorrow. But it is still an 
accomplishment nonetheless.

-- Jon


>
> Otherwise that's quite an accomplishment!  Where should I nudge to 
> finish it off?
>
> -John
>
> Sent from my location
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Jonathan Gibbons 
> <Jonathan.Gibbons at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>> In 2008, the JDK build was swamped with warnings:
>>
>>> Warning Message Counts:
>>> ----------------------
>>> 15790 ld warnings (contains 'ld:')
>>> 6686 C warnings (contains '[.]c[":]')
>>> 1616 C Include file warnings (contains '[.]h[":]')
>>> 9700 C++ warnings (contains '[.]cpp[":]')
>>>    0 C++ Include file warnings (contains '[.]hpp[":]')
>>> 4432 Java warnings (contains '.java:' or 'Note:' )
>>>    0 VM warnings (contains 'VM warning:' )
>>>  600 Javadoc warnings (contains ': warning -')
>>>  250 Compiler driver warnings (contains cc: or CC: or 'cl :')
>>>   59 GNU make warnings (contains '.gmk:' or 'akefile:' or 
>>> '(ignored)' or starts with 'gnumake')
>>>  276 Shell warnings (contains ': not found' or 'awk:')
>>>  187 Build warnings (contains WARNING:)
>>>  312 Font warnings (contains 'entry is missing')
>>> -----
>>> 39908 Total of above warnings
>>
>> It looks like lots of folk have been doing heroic service, because 
>> somewhat amazingly, it now looks like I can count the remaining 
>> warnings on my fingers and toes without major surgery.
>>
>> area
>>    #warnings
>>    notes
>> javaws
>>    8
>>    non-varargs call of varargs method with inexact argument type for 
>> last parameter;
>> javadoc (main API)
>>    4
>>
>> javadoc (Taglet)
>>    2
>>
>> jvmti
>>    1
>>    Generated jvmti file does not exist: /platform/jvmti/jvmti.html
>> javadoc (management)
>>    1
>>
>> Total
>>    16
>>
>>
>>
>> Perhaps with one effort, we can fix even these few warnings.
>>
>> -- Jon