Re: [PATCH 7/7] asm-generic: suppress sparse warning in ioctl.h

[Al Viro]

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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