On 03/02/2019 12:12, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2019 at 01:49:37AM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: >> On 02/02/2019 00:41, SZEDER Gábor wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 01, 2019 at 09:01:20PM +0000, Ramsay Jones wrote: >>>> At the moment, on Linux, the sp-out file is free from any sparse errors >>>> or warnings. So are next and pu: >>>> >>>> $ grep error sp-out >>>> $ grep warning sp-out >>> >>> On 'master' I get: >>> >>> $ grep error sp-out >>> $ grep warning sp-out >>> connect.c:652:40: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (invalid types) >>> pack-revindex.c:65:23: warning: memset with byte count of 262144 >>> unix-socket.c:83:26: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (invalid types) >>> unix-socket.c:108:23: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (invalid types) >>> daemon.c:1041:36: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (invalid types) >>> daemon.c:1184:67: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (invalid types) >>> imap-send.c:1022:42: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (invalid types) >>> credential-cache--daemon.c:180:37: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (invalid types) >>> $ sparse --version >>> v0.5.0 >> >> Yeah, that version of sparse is a bit too old. >> >> If memory serves (it may not), all of the 'argument 2 (invalid types)' >> errors are caused by the glibc headers using a 'transparent union' to >> define the 'struct sockaddr' type. sparse could not handle that until >> commit 7698bae699 (aka. v0.5.0-5-g7698bae). The only remaining warning >> was addressed by commit bcfe020ed9 (aka. v0.5.1-rc1-22-gbcfe020) in >> sparse and commit 54360a1956 in git. >> >> So, it seems you need at least v0.5.2 of sparse on your Linux system >> (which can't be too recent, or you would need v0.6.0). > > The latest Linux image available on Travis CI is based on Ubuntu 16.04 > LTS, which contains sparse 0.5.0, while their default image is based > on 14.04, with sparse 0.4.5-rc1. Even the latest Ubuntu LTS is only > at 0.5.1. > > https://travis-ci.org/szeder/git/jobs/488113660#L487 > https://travis-ci.org/szeder/git/jobs/488113661#L208 > Indeed. [This is why I build sparse from source! :-D ] With a bit of luck, v0.6.1 will be available soon. ATB, Ramsay Jones