On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> I'll think about how to fix it cleanly. Expect a patch shortly.
Ok, patch sent to linux-sparse mailing list. It fixes the particular
cut-down test-case and seems pretty simple and straightforward, but is
otherwise entirely untested, so wh
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 9:48 AM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
> But then when we look up a symbol, we only look at the latest one, so
> when we size the array, we look at that "extern" declaration, and
> don't see the size that was created with the initializer.
Exactly. Sparse need to handle merging of
On 03/30/2014 06:48 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>>
>> which is clearly a sparse bug somewhere.
>
> Yes. What is going on is that we create separate symbols for each
> declaration, and we tie them all together (and warn if they have
> conflictin
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>
> which is clearly a sparse bug somewhere.
Yes. What is going on is that we create separate symbols for each
declaration, and we tie them all together (and warn if they have
conflicting types).
But then when we look up a symbol, we only look
Hi Chris,
On 03/30/2014 08:10 AM, Christopher Li wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
>> Is there any chance that the three issues I reported will be fixed? If not,
>> then I'll work around it in the kernel code.
>>
>
> Most likely it is a sparse issue. Can you generate
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:50 AM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Is there any chance that the three issues I reported will be fixed? If not,
> then I'll work around it in the kernel code.
>
Most likely it is a sparse issue. Can you generate a minimal stand alone
test case that expose this bug? I try to sim
Is there any chance that the three issues I reported will be fixed? If not,
then I'll work around it in the kernel code.
Regards,
Hans
On 03/15/2014 01:12 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> For the record: all these tests were done with a 3.14-rc5 kernel and sparse
> compiled from the git tree as
For the record: all these tests were done with a 3.14-rc5 kernel and sparse
compiled from the git tree as of today (version v0.5.0). The gcc version is
4.8.2.
Regards,
Hans
On 03/15/2014 01:09 PM, Hans Verkuil wrote:
> Hmm, interesting. Twice 'sparse' in the same subject line with diffe
