On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to let sparse avoid emitting warnings like: > > symbol 'X' was not declared. Should it be static? > > for global methods that are only accessed from assembly files? > You mean other than declare it as function prototype first? No that I know of. The reason behind sparse is that, if this function is shared, it should shared by some header file and declared some where. > The reason is that a declaration for such methods - which are usually > bootstrap ones - can given the false impression of being used by some > C code 'somewhere'. Sparse does not care about who call those function, C code or asm code. Sparse don't not actually link the program so it can't know this symbol is actually externally used or not. Personally, I don't see why you can't declare those functions even if they are called from asm. > Unfortunately the current `-Wno-decl' solution is a bit extreme: it > turns off a very useful sparse feature (by design). Right, the problem is that sparse can't tell which functions are used in asm files and only skip warning on those. Chris -- 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
