On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 12:03:54AM -0700, Christopher Li wrote: > On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:33:44AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > > Segfault is new (which version?); the fscking mess in altivec is not, but > > it (a) doesn't depend on host sparse is ran on; (b) shouldn't lead to > > segfaults. Altivec extensions are undocumented and fortunately used only > > in one place in the tree. You should get sparse errors, but it shouldn't > > die on those. > > I think the segfault is likely to cause by my recent change in the parser. > > Dave, can you get a backtrace of the segfault? Even better if you can > give me a small test case which I can reproduce it on x86. > > My guess it is cause by the bad_ctype related changes. Humm... I don't see ppc segfaults with the current tree. However, after merging the mainline sparse changes and looking for regressions on kernel allmodconfig builds, I'm seeing a lot of noise due to expression_error() use. What used to generate a single error now brings a cascade. More often than not it's utterly pointless; actually, I can't find a single instance where additional errors would add any useful information... - 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
