Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:01:27 -0400 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: sparse warnings for variable length arrays |
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On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:58:08AM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > Hi all, > > in include/asm-s390/bitops.h we have several typedefs: > > typedef struct { long _[__BITOPS_WORDS(size)]; } addrtype; > > sparse warns about these with "error: bad constant expression". > Is there any way to tell sparse to be quiet? __force doesn't seem to work.
In many cases, these turn up as on-stack variables. It'd be nice if sparse could figure out the maximum potential bound and warn appropriately if they could reach $BIGSIZE.
For non-stack vars, it's less of an issue of course.
Dave
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