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Message-ID: <d396b6b2-0fa7-aac1-c23b-a31b1c0d446a@landley.net>
Date:   Wed, 30 May 2018 09:41:30 -0500
From:   Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:     Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@...il.com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>
Cc:     linux-sh@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sh: pass machine size to sparse

On 05/28/2018 11:40 AM, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote:
> By default, sparse assumes a 64bit machine when compiled on x86-64
> and 32bit when compiled on anything else.
> 
> This can of course create all sort of problems, like issuing false
> warnings like: 'shift too big (32) for type unsigned long', or
> worse, to not emit legitimate warnings.
> 
> Fix this by passing to sparse the appropriate -m32/-m64 flag

$ ${CROSS_COMPILE}gcc -E -dM - < /dev/null | grep __SIZEOF_LONG__
#define __SIZEOF_LONG__ 8

You can ask the compiler, you don't need to redundantly add this to every
architecture's Makefile.

Rob

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