Re: [PATCH] Re: Sparse just seg faulted on me!

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:54:47AM -0800, Christopher Li wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:24:09AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Actually, it's often better to just explicitly make "ctype" be 
> > "&bad_ctype" instead.
> > 
> > It's nice if a NULL type means "type has not been evaluated yet", and then 
> > using "&bad_ctype" to mean "type evaluated to crap".
> 
> Good idea. Some of the code already doing that. I am making it as a separate
> patch because touch a lot of code.

This is very messy. The current evaluate_* functions are assuming NULL means for
"some error happen in this expression, I can't get the ctype". It is all over the
place.

Chris

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