linux-kernel - Re: Sparse warnings from calls to max3() and max

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Message-ID: <45c184f7-8e1d-59bd-a448-97675e6de81a@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed, 3 Oct 2018 13:43:06 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>,
        Linux-Sparse <linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Sparse warnings from calls to max3() and max

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On 10/2/18 4:44 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Sparse has suddenly started issuing as many as 11 warnings of "expression using sizeof(void)" for each call to max3(). There are similar warnings for calls to max(), thus I think this is the origin of the problem. My sparse version is 20180324-1.3-x86_64 installed in openSUSE Tumbleweed. My kernel is 4.19.0-rc6.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry


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~Randy