Hi Linus, On 20 August 2017 at 23:09, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 2:51 PM, Dibyendu Majumdar > <mobile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Whenever an EXPR_SYMBOL is encountered does this actually equate to >> the address of the symbol? > > Yes, it should. > > Note that not all EXPR_SYMBOL are really symbols in the C sense. As > mentioned in another thread, you can also have anonymous symbols - > they act kind of like a named variable, just without the name. > > The most common case of an anonymous symbol is a constant string, but > we do the general case of "cast followed by an initializer" as an > anonymous symbol of any type. > That's interesting - thanks! Regards Dibyendu -- 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
