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From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@sysprog.at>
To: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce ptr_diff()
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:04:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282233889.10440.220.camel@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1282233186.1713.10.camel@leonhard>

On Fre, 2010-08-20 at 00:53 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> 2010-08-19 (목), 14:23 +0200, Andi Kleen:
> > IMHO it would be better to simply disable the warning in sparse instead
> > of uglying the code just to work around sparse bogosity. It doesnt' seem
> > to make much sense. A subtraction followed by a shift is not expensive.
[...]
> I'm curious who turns on that switch. -Wptr-subtraction-blows is turned
> off by default, I didn't use CF variable at build time and I could not
> find any reference of it in the source tree. Hmm..

sparse also gets gcc's parameters which include (usually) "-Wall". And
this activates it.
Adding -Wno-ptr-subtraction-blows to CHECKFLAGS should do the trick.

	Bernd
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-19 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-19 11:37 [RFC][PATCH] introduce ptr_diff() Namhyung Kim
2010-08-19 11:57 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 12:03 ` David Howells
2010-08-19 12:23 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 12:40   ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-08-19 12:58     ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 12:58       ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 12:48   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 12:48     ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 12:59     ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 13:05       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 13:39         ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-20 12:12       ` Al Viro
2010-08-19 15:53   ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-19 16:04     ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2010-08-19 16:12       ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-20 12:07   ` Al Viro
2010-08-20 12:49     ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-08-20 12:57       ` Andi Kleen

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