I noticed when browsing parse.c that function parameters declared using K&R syntax are parsed by calling declaration_list(), which seems to have been intended for parsing structure member declarations and accepts bit-field syntax. So e.g. this is (incorrectly) accepted by sparse: static int foo(b) int b: 4; { return 0; } -- 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