Re: [PATCH] cross-sparse
From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Jun 18 2004 - 18:02:52 EST
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> IIRC, actually the first error I got when using the native sparse was that it
> couldn't find stdarg.h.
Ok.
> And even the non-native sparse doesn't know about architecture-specific defines
> like __mc68000__, causing some code paths being wrong. Guess I have to replace
> them by e.g. CONFIG_M68K.
No, this is handled by fixing up the expected defines in the
arch/xxx/Makefile
thing, ie x86 has this:
CHECK := $(CHECK) -D__i386__=1
exactly because sparse is architecture-agnostic. Same goes for 64-bit
issues (sparse defaults to 32-bit types regardless of what the native
format is), so a 64-bit platform like ppc64 would do:
CHECK := $(CHECK) -m64 -D__powerpc__=1
where that "-m64" is the magic flag to sparse for a 64-bit compile
environment.
But your stdarg.h issue is certainly valid. I'd really like for sparse to
be _totally_ independent of the native compiler install, and I guess we
could do something like
CHECK := $(CHECK) -I$(shell $(CC) -print-file-name=include)
or similar to get this part right too, but then sparse would be hard to
use stand-alone without the Makefile magic. Hmm.
Linus
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