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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0706261721550.8675@woody.linux-foundation.org>
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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