Re: sparse warnings in overflow.h

[Luc Van Oostenryck]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2018 at 09:25:09PM +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> 
> IIRC, the problem is that sparse pretends to be the gcc sparse itself
> was built with, which is obviously entirely unrelated to the C dialect
> that that particular sparse version groks. Sigh. Ack to the fix above.

Yes, indeed, and it is sometimes a problem.
Ideal would be that sparse would pretend to be same GCC as the one used
to compile the code being checked *and* to have exactly the same features.

Pretending to be an older version of GCC would maybe solve the present
problem it's not really a general solution.

One good thing would be to not depend on GCC versions to enable some
features (but GCC offers few facilities helping here).


Best regards,
-- Luc Van Oostenryck