From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
Eli Friedman <efriedma@codeaurora.org>,
Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Dominique Martinet <asmadeus@codewreck.org>,
linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/12] Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded sparse (__CHECKER__) tests
Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018 12:30:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180905193035.GB3420@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180905182038.muv535vfugm72spk@ltop.local>
On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 08:20:39PM +0200, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 10:33:11PM +0200, Miguel Ojeda wrote:
> > Sparse knows about a few more attributes now, so we can remove
> > the __CHECKER__ conditions from them (which, in turn, allow us
> > to move some of them later on to compiler_attributes.h).
> >
> > * assume_aligned: since sparse's commit ffc860b ("sparse:
> > ignore __assume_aligned__ attribute"), included in 0.5.1
> >
> > * error: since sparse's commit 0a04210 ("sparse: Add 'error'
> > to ignored attributes"), included in 0.5.0
> >
> > * hotpatch: since sparse's commit 6043210 ("sparse/parse.c:
> > ignore hotpatch attribute"), included in 0.5.1
> >
> > * warning: since sparse's commit 977365d ("Avoid "attribute
> > 'warning': unknown attribute" warning"), included in 0.4.2
>
> Hi,
>
> I hadn't noticed in the previous version but I see now that hotpatch
> & assume_aligned is only available since sparse 0.5.1 which is only
> 13 months old. It would be great if everyone use a recent version
> but I fear that a lot of people still use something less recent.
> v0.5.0 should be OK, though, it's more than 5 years old.
>
> Sorry for not having noticed this earlier.
Unlike GCC, I don't think it's at all unreasonable to assume a
*relatively* recent version of Sparse.
(Once we start assuming a version with __has_attribute support, this
will get even easier to handle.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-05 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-03 20:33 [PATCH v3 00/12] Compiler Attributes Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 01/12] Compiler Attributes: remove unused attributes Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 02/12] Compiler Attributes: always use the extra-underscores syntax Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 03/12] Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded tests Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 04/12] Compiler Attributes: homogenize __must_be_array Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 05/12] Compiler Attributes: naked was fixed in gcc 4.6 Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 06/12] Compiler Attributes: naked can be shared Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 07/12] Compiler Attributes: remove unneeded sparse (__CHECKER__) tests Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-05 18:20 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-09-05 19:30 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2018-09-05 19:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2018-09-05 19:49 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 08/12] Compiler Attributes: add missing SPDX ID in compiler_types.h Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 09/12] Compiler Attributes: use feature checks instead of version checks Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 10/12] Compiler Attributes: KENTRY used twice the "used" attribute Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-04 16:58 ` Nick Desaulniers
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 11/12] Compiler Attributes: remove uses of __attribute__ from compiler.h Miguel Ojeda
2018-09-03 20:33 ` [PATCH 12/12] Compiler Attributes: add Doc/process/programming-language.rst Miguel Ojeda
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