linux-kernel - Re: Warning message when using sparse

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Date:	Fri, 09 Jul 2010 22:47:21 +0200
From:	Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...il.com>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
CC:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>,
	Linux-Sparse <linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Warning message when using sparse

On 07/09/2010 03:52 AM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On recent kernels, sparse reports the following message for every source
> file that is processed. The warning does not seem to affect the results.
> I'm not sure when the problem started, but I think it was with 2.6.35-rc1.
> 
> 
>   CHECK   drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl871x_rf.c
> /home/finger/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:297:21: error:
> Expected ( after asm
> /home/finger/linux-2.6/arch/x86/include/asm/cpufeature.h:297:21: error:
> got goto
> 

Yeah, I posted a support for that already:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=devel/sparse/chrisl/sparse.git;a=summary

The patch is not 100% correct, it doesn't support asm volatile goto and
similar.

What distro you use? I will fix it in opensuse (which provide gcc 4.5
already), if there will be no new release of sparse.

regards,
-- 
js
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