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* "advancing past deep designator" warnings
@ 2011-05-29 21:57 Randy Dunlap
  2011-05-30  6:21 ` Dan Carpenter
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2011-05-29 21:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-sparse

Hi,

Can you give me an idea about what this warning means and what to do about it?
Thanks.


(x86_64 allmodconfig, linux-2.6.39-git18)


drivers/usb/gadget/f_audio.c:229:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_acm.c:261:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_ecm.c:283:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/cdc2.c:112:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_ecm.c:283:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_subset.c:217:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_rndis.c:294:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_eem.c:130:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c:218:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_hid.c:577:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/hid.c:113:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_acm.c:261:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_ecm.c:283:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_subset.c:217:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_rndis.c:294:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/multi.c:139:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_ncm.c:346:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/ncm.c:120:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_acm.c:261:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_ecm.c:283:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_obex.c:76:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_serial.c:114:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/nokia.c:73:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_acm.c:261:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_obex.c:76:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_serial.c:114:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/serial.c:74:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_uvc.c:47:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/webcam.c:58:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_sourcesink.c:138:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_loopback.c:125:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/zero.c:167:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/net/wan/x25_asy.c:527:17: error: return with no return value
drivers/usb/gadget/f_ecm.c:283:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_subset.c:217:9: warning: advancing past deep designator
drivers/usb/gadget/f_rndis.c:294:9: warning: advancing past deep designator


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~Randy
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* Re: "advancing past deep designator" warnings
  2011-05-29 21:57 "advancing past deep designator" warnings Randy Dunlap
@ 2011-05-30  6:21 ` Dan Carpenter
  2011-05-30 16:45   ` Randy Dunlap
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2011-05-30  6:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Randy Dunlap; +Cc: linux-sparse

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:57:12PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Can you give me an idea about what this warning means and what to do about it?
> Thanks.
>

It means that you have an array declared like:
	int x[] = {
		[4] = 5,  <-- designator.
		6         <-- advance one step.
	};

GCC handles these correctly, so I don't think we'd want to change
anything in the kernel because of them.

regards,
dan carpenter

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* Re: "advancing past deep designator" warnings
  2011-05-30  6:21 ` Dan Carpenter
@ 2011-05-30 16:45   ` Randy Dunlap
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Randy Dunlap @ 2011-05-30 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Dan Carpenter; +Cc: linux-sparse

On Mon, 30 May 2011 09:21:41 +0300 Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:57:12PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Can you give me an idea about what this warning means and what to do about it?
> > Thanks.
> >
> 
> It means that you have an array declared like:
> 	int x[] = {
> 		[4] = 5,  <-- designator.
> 		6         <-- advance one step.
> 	};
> 
> GCC handles these correctly, so I don't think we'd want to change
> anything in the kernel because of them.

Hi Dan,
Thanks for the explanation.  I'll just ignore these warnings.

---
~Randy
*** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***

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