Re: How do I get the latest sparse?

[Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>]

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Christopher Li wrote:
> That is the same git repository I am pulling from. There is not
> much update recently. I assume it is the Christmas/New Year holidays.

That combined with the back-to-school crunch and work on a research grant.
The grant helps further my work on Sparse, though. :)

I've followed all the patches on linux-sparse, and I have tested several of
them in local git; I just haven't pushed out new bits.  I particularly look
forward to integrating your NULL pointer checking code, and I think I can
adapt some of the dataflow analysis code for lock context checking as well.  I
also know at least one likely customer for the smarter Sparse-based ctags, and
I plan to look into generating cscope information as well (sparscope).  Expect
bits soon.

Also, some of the patches came with disclaimers along the lines of "don't use
this, I plan to rewrite". :) For those, I wanted to wait a bit and see where
they go; however, given the usefulness of some of those patches, I may go
ahead and merge them anyway.

- Josh Triplett

> Chris
> 
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 03:48:26PM -0800, Mitesh Shah wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> How do I get the latest version of sparse? The git repository from the
>> sparse home page
>> (http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/josh/sparse/) does not show
>> any update since Dec 05, 2006, while I see few patched submitted after
>> that.
>>
>> Also the latest tarball URL gives me a version which is not updated
>> since Nov 06
>> (http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/sparse-lates
>> t.tar.gz)
>>
>> Is there something I am missing?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -Mitesh



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