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From: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
To: Pavel Roskin <plroskin@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux-Sparse <linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add -gcc-version option
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 09:07:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANeU7Q=HYVQY3HkSqKPekxSMhzFsxpV2UV905h3Qyf2sNGF1ug@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN_72e2SE4pcUNNUSOJVRW31YdXmm-tR0ybOjpT7QDV2fmne4g@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 7:46 PM, Pavel Roskin <plroskin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, that works! I wish I thought of it earlier and did not waste time
> writing that patch.
>
> That option may still be useful if sparse attempts to imitate the
> behavior of specific gcc versions (in addition to the defines).

I will skip the patch  for now. Yes it is more convenient to give one
command line
options and it set 3 macros. I am not sure the complexity justify it.

When you specify the gcc version, there is also implicit version
specific behavior
go with it. I can see user file bugs said I give sparse gcc version X,
but gcc has
macro Y in X. That is not the case with sparse, that is a bug. I don't
want to give
the user false impression that sparse can set a gcc version and simulate the gcc
version specific behavior.

It is simpler just put the version specific macro into a header file and ask
sparse to include it. You should be able to add that to command line as well.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-19 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-18 21:59 [PATCH] Add -gcc-version option Pavel Roskin
2017-07-18 23:35 ` Christopher Li
2017-07-18 23:46   ` Pavel Roskin
2017-07-19 13:07     ` Christopher Li [this message]
2017-07-19 17:27       ` Pavel Roskin
2017-07-19 19:16         ` Christopher Li

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