Re: Are Section mismatches out of control?

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Feb 1 2008 03:21, Harvey Harrison wrote:
>> 
>> Question is: why do people keep adding new ones when they are so easy to
>> detect and fix?
>> 
>> Asnwer: because neither they nor their patch integrators are doing adequate
>> compilation testing.
>
>[...]
>Unless they break the build, or if there currently are 0 and they make
>it non-zero, people seem not to care....sad.  Probably the same for
>sparse/checkpatch, "there's plenty already, I can't be bothered to look"

checkpatch does not parse C, it uses heuristical regexes.

That makes it very different from sparse or the section mismatch
finder which do not output false positives.
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