From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
josh@freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] asm-generic: suppress sparse warning in ioctl.h
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:50:20 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0804021848140.14670@woody.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080403013420.GV9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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.
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.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-03 1:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-03 0:33 Harvey Harrison
2008-04-03 0:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-03 1:34 ` Al Viro
2008-04-03 1:50 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2008-04-03 1:59 ` Al Viro
2008-04-03 2:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-04-03 2:55 ` Al Viro
2008-04-04 9:19 ` Al Viro
2008-04-03 2:41 ` Al Viro
2008-04-03 20:31 ` Josh Triplett
2008-04-04 1:19 ` Al Viro
2008-04-04 2:00 ` Al Viro
2008-04-04 14:08 ` Derek M Jones
2008-04-04 18:42 ` Al Viro
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