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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Bogus locking warnings
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 02:24:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1172561066.19312.28.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702262000460.12485@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 20:19 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> and don't expect sparse to do any dynamic checking. It's expressly 
> designed to *not* do that, although some of the static optimizations
> are 
> clever enough that sometimes you are fooled into *thinking* that it 
> actually understands dynamic behaviour (ie being able to statically
> follow 
> a conditional jump to another identical conditional jump and simplify
> it 
> to a single branch).

It has been fooling me until now.  Anyway, thanks for the detailed
answer!  I'll try to do what you are suggesting.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

      reply	other threads:[~2007-02-27  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-27  1:42 Bogus locking warnings Pavel Roskin
2007-02-27  4:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-27  7:24   ` Pavel Roskin [this message]

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