On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 10:54:20AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote: > The skbuff.[hc] difference is in *getfrag vs. getfrag. > The mpage.[hc] difference is in *get_block vs. getblock. > > Questions: > 1. Is the warning valid? I don't think so. > 2. Isn't the '*' unnecessary? It is valid in C without '*'. Sparse already know the function is going to degenerated into function pointers. It wrongly inherent the signedness. You get a signed pointer. Can you please try this patch? Chris Index: sparse/symbol.h =================================================================== --- sparse.orig/symbol.h 2007-02-04 23:46:07.000000000 -0800 +++ sparse/symbol.h 2007-02-05 12:18:30.000000000 -0800 @@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ struct symbol { #define MOD_SIZE (MOD_CHAR | MOD_SHORT | MOD_LONG | MOD_LONGLONG) #define MOD_IGNORE (MOD_TOPLEVEL | MOD_STORAGE | MOD_ADDRESSABLE | \ MOD_ASSIGNED | MOD_USERTYPE | MOD_FORCE | MOD_ACCESSED | MOD_EXPLICITLY_SIGNED) +#define MOD_PTRINHERIT (MOD_VOLATILE | MOD_CONST | MOD_NODEREF | MOD_STORAGE) /* Current parsing/evaluation function */ Index: sparse/evaluate.c =================================================================== --- sparse.orig/evaluate.c 2007-02-04 00:47:46.000000000 -0800 +++ sparse/evaluate.c 2007-02-05 12:20:08.000000000 -0800 @@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ static void examine_fn_arguments(struct else ptr->ctype.base_type = arg; ptr->ctype.as |= s->ctype.as; - ptr->ctype.modifiers |= s->ctype.modifiers; + ptr->ctype.modifiers |= s->ctype.modifiers & MOD_PTRINHERIT; s->ctype.base_type = ptr; s->ctype.as = 0; @@ -1313,8 +1313,6 @@ static struct symbol *convert_to_as_mod( return sym; } -#define MOD_PTRINHERIT (MOD_VOLATILE | MOD_CONST | MOD_NODEREF | MOD_STORAGE) - static struct symbol *create_pointer(struct expression *expr, struct symbol *sym, int degenerate) { struct symbol *node = alloc_symbol(expr->pos, SYM_NODE); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html