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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>,
	linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, adobriyan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: declaration specifiers wooziness
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:39:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070627153927.GV21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46827F4D.7010305@knosof.co.uk>

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Derek M Jones wrote:

> These are all permitted by the syntax of C.
> 
> 6.7 Declarations, the init-declarator-list is optional.

See 6.7[2]; the things like
	int ;
violate the constraint.
 
> >>"typedef extern;" passes.
> ...
> >>Not sure how many different bugs there are here, though...
> 
> Sparse might flag the usage as suspicious, but it is not a bug.

See 6.7.1[2]; no more than one storage class specifier in a declaration.

> >Several more:
> 
> The syntax permits:
> 
> signed unsigned short long double int;

See 6.7.2[2]; the set you've given is not in the list given there.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-27 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-27 10:33 declaration specifiers wooziness Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-27 15:01 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-27 15:16   ` Derek M Jones
2007-06-27 15:31     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-06-27 15:34       ` Derek M Jones
2007-06-27 15:44         ` Derek M Jones
2007-06-27 15:48           ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-27 16:00           ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 15:39     ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-06-27 15:39     ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-27 15:41       ` Al Viro

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