From: Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk>
To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.co.uk>,
Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>,
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] fix handling of integer constant expressions
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 01:29:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4681AF87.3000301@knosof.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070627001803.GJ21478@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Al Viro wrote:
>>> Hopefully correct handling of integer constant expressions. Please, review.
>> Am I invoking sparse wrongly? ./sparse -W -Wall doesn't diagnose
>> the following TU, for example.
>>
>> extern int a;
>> extern int as1[(a = 2)];
>
> sparse simply doesn't check that. We don't have anything resembling
> support of VLA.
If it did support VLAs it would point out that this is
a constraint violation. VLAs must have block or function
prototype scope.
--
Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667
Knowledge Software Ltd mailto:derek@knosof.co.uk
Applications Standards Conformance Testing http://www.knosof.co.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-27 0:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-24 8:05 [PATCH 16/16] fix handling of integer constant expressions Al Viro
2007-06-24 17:47 ` Al Viro
2007-06-24 18:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-24 18:35 ` Al Viro
2007-06-24 19:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-24 19:40 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-24 20:38 ` Al Viro
2007-06-24 21:42 ` Neil Booth
2007-06-24 23:07 ` Al Viro
2007-06-25 6:16 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-25 5:31 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-25 19:55 ` Al Viro
2007-06-26 3:12 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-26 22:10 ` Al Viro
2007-06-26 22:11 ` Al Viro
2007-06-26 23:32 ` Neil Booth
2007-06-27 0:18 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 0:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-27 0:37 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 0:29 ` Derek M Jones [this message]
2007-06-27 0:41 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 11:52 ` Neil Booth
2007-06-27 12:19 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 12:26 ` Neil Booth
2007-06-27 12:37 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 12:10 ` Neil Booth
2007-06-27 12:30 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 12:59 ` Neil Booth
2007-06-27 13:18 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 13:35 ` Neil Booth
2007-06-27 14:06 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 15:54 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 14:50 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-27 14:59 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-27 16:34 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-27 17:25 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 17:29 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 17:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-06-27 18:04 ` Al Viro
2007-06-27 22:50 ` Neil Booth
2007-06-28 9:08 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-26 22:49 ` Josh Triplett
2007-06-25 6:13 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-24 19:59 ` Al Viro
2007-06-24 18:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-24 19:10 ` Al Viro
2007-06-24 18:18 ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-24 18:44 ` Al Viro
2007-06-24 19:09 ` Segher Boessenkool
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