linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/16] fix handling of integer constant expressions

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:25:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
cc:	Neil Booth <neil@...kokuya.co.uk>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...edesktop.org>,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] fix handling of integer constant expressions



On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > extern int a;
> > extern int as1[(a = 2)];
> 
> sparse simply doesn't check that.  We don't have anything resembling
> support of VLA.

Well, the above has two bugs that sparse could notice _independently_ of 
variable-sized arrays:
 - assignment outside of a function
 - variable size array that isn't an automatic variable

(strictly speaking, that's not even a variable size - it's a constant 2, 
just with a non-constant expression - maybe you misread the "=" as an 
"==")

		Linus
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