On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 08:39:35AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 16:16 +0100, Derek M Jones wrote: > > Alex, Josh, > > > > > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 14:33 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > > >> sparse silently accepts some peculiar combinations of declaration > > >> specifiers: > > > > These are all permitted by the syntax of C. > > > > 6.7 Declarations, the init-declarator-list is optional. > > Huh; interesting. That explains "int volatile;" as well; it doesn't > parse as an attempt to declare an integer named volatile, but as a > declaration with no variable. It is optional for structs, unions and enums.
> > >> "typedef extern;" passes. > > ... > > >> Not sure how many different bugs there are here, though... > > > > Sparse might flag the usage as suspicious, but it is not a bug. > > Probably not worth the trouble of flagging. ... only because any compiler is going to throw up on it anyway. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
