From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Li Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fix loading of partially defined bitfield Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2017 22:00:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20170807013338.46211-1-luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from mail-pg0-f42.google.com ([74.125.83.42]:33795 "EHLO mail-pg0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751743AbdHGCAo (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2017 22:00:44 -0400 Received: by mail-pg0-f42.google.com with SMTP id u185so28005142pgb.1 for ; Sun, 06 Aug 2017 19:00:44 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Luc Van Oostenryck Cc: Dibyendu Majumdar , Linux-Sparse On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Christopher Li wrote: > On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 9:33 PM, Luc Van Oostenryck > wrote: >> The goal of this series is to fix the problem present in sparse >> when a bitfield in an uninitialized automatic variable is first >> set then read-back. >> >> In this case the bitfield itself is initialized but not the >> remaining of the structure/word and sparse was not smart >> enough to handle it. >> >> This is for testing only and the patches are not meant to >> be applied on the main tree becasue it need the new SSA >> construction to handle the undefined vars correctly. >> >> (two other simplifications is also needed to make the >> generated code a no-op as it should be but not yet >> implemented). >> >> The whole code is available in the git repository at: >> >> git://github.com/lucvoo/sparse.git fix-loading-partialy-defined-bitfields > > Is this for RC5? Sorry I did not read your description very well. You said it is not for main line yet. Chris