Re: [PATCH V2] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning

From: Christopher Li
Date: Thu Feb 27 2014 - 15:22:55 EST


On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:32 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Quite frankly, this is silly in my opinion, *and* it is not guaranteed
> by C either (read about "trap representations").
>>
> Anything that moves data around in a generic fashion. It can be as
> simple as:
>
> memcpy(foo, bar, sizeof *foo);

OK. I get it nobody wants a sizeof(_Bool) warning.

I am going to apply this patch.

Should we change the default to off then?

Thanks.

Chris
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