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

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:35:46 +0900
From:	Neil Booth <neil@...kokuya.co.uk>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Josh Triplett <josh@...edesktop.org>,
	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/16] fix handling of integer constant expressions

Al Viro wrote:-

> 
> Son of a...  expand_comma() cannibalizes the node, should restore ->flags
> to 0 (same as other similar suckers).
> 
> > struct c { unsigned int c1: 1 ? 2: a++; };
> 
> Ditto for expand_conditional, but there we should preserve the original
> ->flags instead - might be non-zero and we ought to do that after
> expanding the taken branch...
> 
> From: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 09:10:54 -0400
> Subject: [PATCH] fix the missed cannibalizing simplifications
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Now I think I only see one class of issues; the following is valid
C99 (I believe that's what you intend to follow) but being rejected:

   struct a { int comma: 1 ? 2: (2, 3); };

It's invalid C90.

Neil.
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