On 13/06/17 05:58, Luc Van Oostenryck wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:05:27AM -0700, Christopher Li wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> I know that sparse has due for a new release for very long time. >> So here it is. > > Great! > >> I take what is in the spase-next and put them into >> a branch "sparse-0.5.1-rc1". >> >> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git/log/?h=sparse-0.5.1-rc1 >> >> Thanks to Luc Van Oostenryck who contribute a great deal >> of the high quality patches. Sparse should behave much better >> when checking the recent kernel source code. >> >> Please give the RC1 a good test. Report any problem you found. > > I really think that for this it would be better to not have > this rc1 in a separate branch but instead a simple tag in > the master branch, like most projects do. > A lot of people are willing to take the last version of the > master branch but won't bother to checkout another one. > It also conveys the message that this rc1 may be unstable and > too risky for be part of the master branch. It's also not good > for distros and environments which do automatic build, daily > snapshots and such as they won't use another branch. > >> Luc, do you have another other bug fix low risk patches you want to >> add in this release? I want to do a quick release then go back to merge >> your other changes. > > Nothing really important but I would like to have the following > ones in the release: > - patch "avoid warning on explicit 'bool <- restricted' casts" > I would have liked an Acked-by from Al Viro on this one but > he is quite busy. > - patch "add support for -Wmemcpy-max-count" & friends > This patch will likely be used for the git tree Luc, I have not actually tested these patches (I was waiting for something I could git-fetch). I have no doubt they are good, but it just occurred to me that a patch may be missing. I don't recall seeing a change to cgcc to filter-out the new, sparse only, options. ie. they need to be added to the check_only_option subroutine (#102). > - patch "finer control over error vs. warnings" > which can reveal potential problems which were hidden > - patch "teach cgcc about OSX aka darwin" > - patch "ret-void: warn for implicit type" > - series "testsuite speedup" > > I'll send a pull request tomorrow. > > -- Luc > -- > 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 > -- 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
