In most situations of function type is implicitly converted to the corresponding pointer. This pointer can be dereferenced but the implicit conversion will make it to immediatly decay back to a pointer. In consequence, in a function call the function designator can be preceded by an unlimited number of deref operator ('*'). This series makes it effective. Luc Van Oostenryck (3): add testcases for multiple deref of calls avoid unneeded alloc on error path dereference of a function is a no-op evaluate.c | 6 +++++- validation/function-pointer-type.c | 3 +++ validation/linear/call-builtin.c | 5 ++++- validation/linear/call-direct.c | 5 ++++- validation/linear/call-indirect.c | 4 +++- validation/linear/call-inline.c | 5 ++++- validation/sizeof-function.c | 1 - 7 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) -- 2.15.0 -- 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