From: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] <op>= mishandling
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:45:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <456C9FED.8000102@freedesktop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061124071247.GO3078@ftp.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro wrote:
> commit 5a627ec02342727b151712acc9c752a8e4f12da0
> Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
> Date: Sat Nov 6 20:10:22 2004 -0700
>
> Don't do assignment replacement at type evaluation time.
>
> was too optimistic. Here's a trivial example of the things going
> wrong with it:
[snip various detailed examples of this going horribly wrong.]
> I'm fixing that crap right now; if somebody has objections against the
> above - please, yell.
No objections; please do.
When you supply the fix, can you please also include one or more test cases
for the validation directory which demonstrate the incorrect evaluation?
Thanks,
Josh Triplett
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2006-11-24 7:12 [RFC] <op>= mishandling Al Viro
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