This is a long due release. The sparse 0.4.4 can be downloaded from: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/ The new sparse has a lot of bugs fixes. It will report less noise while checking the new kernel tree. It compiles better with the new gcc as well. The sparse project is in the process of moving to the MIT license. Dan is coordinating the efforts. Most sparse developers sign off the MIT license already. If you haven't done so, please contact Dan off the list regarding the new license. Here is the short summery of the changes in this release. Have a nice long week end. Chris Ben Pfaff (1): evaluate: Allow sizeof(_Bool) to succeed. Christopher Li (13): inspect: adding function arugument list Allow overwrite CFLAGS from command line Ignore attribute vector_size Remove set but not used variable inspect: Add switch statement and more validation: inline switch statement Fix inlining switch statement. Sparse 0.4.4-rc1 Add test case for empty asm clobbers Fix parsing empty asm clobber Sparse 0.4.4-rc2 Add test case for binary constants sparse 0.4.4 Dan Carpenter (1): recognize binary constants Diego Elio Pettenò (3): build: allow easy override of GCC_BASE build: add an all-installable target that builds the targets to install. Fix build with GCC 4.6 series. Florian Fainelli (1): Makefile: warn user when libxml and/or libgtk2 are not available Jan Pokorný (4): remove unused "container" macro flow.c: make comment for `dominates' reflect code use ARRAY_SIZE() when possible (continued) parse.c: "if(" -> "if (" adjustment Jonathan Neuschäfer (3): fix a memory leak in compile-i386.c 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 (5): Add new streams to a hash-list based on their names Teach 'already_tokenized()' to use the stream name hash table Make 'linearize_iterator()' helper function Make 'linearize_switch()' helper function Make 'linearize_return()' helper function Michael Stefaniuc (1): Ignore the ms_hook_prologue attribute. Namhyung Kim (3): use ARRAY_SIZE() when possible Fix tokenizer for octal escape sequences Update the validation check for escape sequences Nicolas Kaiser (1): memops.c: always true expression Pekka Enberg (4): sparse: Add 'artifical' to ignore attributes 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
