From: Josh Triplett <josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, adobriyan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: declaration specifiers wooziness
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 08:01:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1182956472.8970.35.camel@josh-work.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070627103320.GA11047@localhost.sw.ru>
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:33 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> sparse silently accepts some peculiar combinations of declaration
> specifiers:
>
> "typedef extern;" passes.
>
> "void char a;" errors about void declaration, however,
> "extern void char a;" passes. Hey, "extern void a;" passes!
>
> "char short a;" passes too. Ditto for "char float a;" and
> "char long a".
>
> "typedef inline a;" passes.
>
> Not sure how many different bugs there are here, though...
Several more:
int;
void;
int *;
void *;
static;
extern;
volatile;
static foo;
extern foo;
volatile foo;
int volatile;
- Josh Triplett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-27 15:01 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 [this message]
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
2007-06-27 15:39 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-27 15:41 ` Al Viro
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