Re: [PATCH] builtin: mark __builtin_strlen() as integer constant expression

From: Chris Li

Date: Fri Feb 20 2026 - 14:34:50 EST


On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 12:31 AM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 12:06:15AM -0800, Chris Li wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 11:20 AM Andy Shevchenko
> > <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 09:06:23AM -0800, Chris Li wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Can you please take a look? If Al patch is the correct approach, any
> > > > > chance you can send it and fix this?
> > > >
> > > > I am asking in another thread should I pull Al's git repo instead.
> > > > There are a few good commits there.
> > >
> > > Please, pull Al's work, My colleagues and I use his version of sparse for a few
> > > weeks without noticing any downsides.
> >
> > Thanks for the heads up. I just pulled Al's sparse repo.
>
> Can you also issue a new tag (say 0.6.5) so the distros can really be pushed to
> update the quite outdated sparse in their repos?

Sure. I can give it a spin this weekend and keep you posted. There is
one risk on my signing key, it might be expired and I need to sort
that out.

Meanwhile, please give the current sparse repo some good tests.

Chris