linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/45] C++: Convert the kernel to C++

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Date:   Mon, 2 Apr 2018 00:32:04 +0300
From:   Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:     dhowells@...hat.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/45] C++: Convert the kernel to C++

> We could, for example, wrap things like userspace pointers, __be numbers,
> ioport addresses and control access to them that way, but I don't know that it
> gains a whole load that sparse doesn't give us.

The problem with sparse is that it is not mandatory part of a build
process. And it spams lot ATM.