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Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 10:58:08 +0200
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
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Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Subject: sparse warnings for variable length arrays
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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.