Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Apr 2008 02:59:46 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 7/7] asm-generic: suppress sparse warning in ioctl.h |
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:50:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Al Viro wrote: > > > > Umm... How far do you want sparse to go? You _really_ don't want > > bug-for-bug compatibility with gcc - it's far too weird (and that's > > even before going into the effects of optimization flags). > > I would suggest just accepting link-time constants in constant > expressions. But yeah, maybe limit even that just to unevaluated > subexpressions.
Um... But that's _not_ a link-time constant - simply an int variable not defined in any object file...
> That said, for sparse, the right thing to do would be to use > __builtin_warning() or something, but gcc doesn't have that kind of thing, > so.. > > > BTW, what happened with sparse.git? > > Yeah, we do seem to have lost a maintainer.
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