From: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>,
Sparse <linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org>,
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparse just seg faulted on me!
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:18:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070214201855.GC18753@chrisli.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070214195447.GA18753@chrisli.org>
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:54:47AM -0800, Christopher Li wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:24:09AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Actually, it's often better to just explicitly make "ctype" be
> > "&bad_ctype" instead.
> >
> > It's nice if a NULL type means "type has not been evaluated yet", and then
> > using "&bad_ctype" to mean "type evaluated to crap".
>
> Good idea. Some of the code already doing that. I am making it as a separate
> patch because touch a lot of code.
This is very messy. The current evaluate_* functions are assuming NULL means for
"some error happen in this expression, I can't get the ctype". It is all over the
place.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-14 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 9:04 Sparse just seg faulted on me! Anton Altaparmakov
2007-02-14 17:29 ` [PATCH] " Christopher Li
2007-02-14 18:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-14 19:54 ` Christopher Li
2007-02-14 20:18 ` Christopher Li [this message]
2007-02-23 2:25 ` Josh Triplett
2007-02-14 20:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-02-14 20:36 ` Christopher Li
2007-02-23 2:42 ` Josh Triplett
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