From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] explicitly signed and friends
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 00:01:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070703230141.GI21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468A6D89.3050800@knosof.co.uk>
On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 04:38:49PM +0100, Derek M Jones wrote:
> Al,
>
> >4)
> >gcc is kinda-sorta tolerant to mixing pointers to signed and unsigned,
> >unless you explicitly ask to be strict. However, it's nowhere near
> >as lenient as sparse.
> Having sparse complain about
> constructs that gcc is rather lax about means that those involved in
> kernel development might fix the underlying problem in their code.
Compare the last two sentences...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-02 20:30 [RFC] explicitly signed and friends Al Viro
2007-07-03 15:38 ` Derek M Jones
2007-07-03 23:01 ` Al Viro [this message]
2007-07-04 0:51 ` Derek M Jones
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