Ramsay Jones <ramsay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 17/07/2024 23:53, Junio C Hamano wrote: > [snip] >> That's OK. So in short, with a separate SP_EXTRA_FLAGS with "-Wno-vla", >> Luc's patch is a sufficient fix without any downsides, no? >> > > Yes, assuming you're only concerned with 'make sparse' usage. Is there anything else in the context of this project I should be concerned with, wrt sparse and recent </usr/include/regex.h> that uses vla in prototype parameters? > BTW, I didn't expect it to take this long for this issue to come > back to the list! I expected it to almost immediately cause > problems with the sparse ci job, when the version of Ubuntu was > updated to the LTS (now previous LTS!). So, I just found a simple > solution for now (which turned into 2 years). ;-) Thanks. It really makes me appreciate whenever I learn that we are blessed with project friends who are involved in many other projects we rely on.
