From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: more spewage (Re: sparse segfault on ppc64)
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:50:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070326115009.3991343a.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070326180741.GA24841@chrisli.org>
On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:07:41 -0700 Christopher Li wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2007 at 10:02:22AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> > Well, sparse is often also an "arbiter of good taste".
> >
> > "Technically correct" or "..but gcc accepts it" are secondary to "does the
> > source make sense".
> >
> > For example, gcc accepts a *lot* of insanity when it comes to attributes
> > in odd places. That doesn't necessarily mean that sparse should accept it.
>
> Points taken.
Ack.
> Sparse can parse it and warn about it. It is still better than
> the obscure parser error from sparse.
Yes, thanks.
---
~Randy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-26 18:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-22 6:36 sparse segfault on ppc64 Dave Jones
2007-03-22 7:33 ` Al Viro
2007-03-22 7:03 ` Christopher Li
2007-03-22 12:59 ` Al Viro
2007-03-22 22:16 ` Christopher Li
2007-03-23 23:08 ` [PATCH] Fix the annotated inline call position Christopher Li
2007-04-20 10:09 ` Josh Triplett
2007-03-22 16:04 ` sparse segfault on ppc64 Dave Jones
2007-03-22 17:11 ` Dave Jones
2007-03-22 22:10 ` Christopher Li
2007-03-23 22:04 ` more spewage (Re: sparse segfault on ppc64) Randy Dunlap
2007-03-23 22:57 ` Christopher Li
2007-03-23 23:10 ` [PATCH] handle label attributes Christopher Li
2007-03-25 18:52 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-04-20 10:17 ` Josh Triplett
2007-03-23 23:31 ` more spewage (Re: sparse segfault on ppc64) Sam Ravnborg
2007-03-23 23:01 ` Christopher Li
2007-03-23 23:43 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-24 6:44 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-03-24 16:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-03-24 17:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-03-26 18:07 ` Christopher Li
2007-03-26 18:50 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2007-03-22 15:56 ` sparse segfault on ppc64 Dave Jones
2007-03-22 16:02 ` Al Viro
2007-03-22 8:36 ` [PATCH] vector parsing, was " Christopher Li
2007-03-23 23:14 ` [PATCH] vector parsing (take II) Christopher Li
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