Another week, another -rc. It only has a small number of bug fix and enhancement since the last rc, just the way I like it. The finial release should be pretty close now. Pekka Engerg announced an effort of adding llvm to sparse back end. I am looking forward to merge it after the finial release. Chris -- Christopher Li (3): Add test case for empty asm clobbers Fix parsing empty asm clobber Sparse 0.4.4-rc2 Jonathan Neuschäfer (2): FAQ: fix a typo ("because or") fix common misspellings with codespell Kamil Dudka (2): cse: treat PHI-nodes as other instructions cse: update PHI users when throwing away an instruction Linus Torvalds (3): Make 'linearize_iterator()' helper function Make 'linearize_switch()' helper function Make 'linearize_return()' helper function Michael Stefaniuc (1): Ignore the ms_hook_prologue attribute. Pekka Enberg (3): sparse: Enable unhandled validation tests Show expected vs. actual output on test failure sparse: Fix __builtin_safe_p for pure and const functions -- 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