Re: Bogus locking warnings

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On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 20:19 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> and don't expect sparse to do any dynamic checking. It's expressly 
> designed to *not* do that, although some of the static optimizations
> are 
> clever enough that sometimes you are fooled into *thinking* that it 
> actually understands dynamic behaviour (ie being able to statically
> follow 
> a conditional jump to another identical conditional jump and simplify
> it 
> to a single branch).

It has been fooling me until now.  Anyway, thanks for the detailed
answer!  I'll try to do what you are suggesting.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

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