Re: [PATCH 7/7] asm-generic: suppress sparse warning in ioctl.h

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 07:51:08PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Al Viro wrote:
> > 
> > Um...  But that's _not_ a link-time constant - simply an int variable not
> > defined in any object file...
> 
> Ahh, you're right, my bad. We could change it to take the address of it, 
> though. I assume gcc is happy with that too?

gcc might be, but what are you going to do with it?  Expression is an
integer one, after all - in cases that had triggered that thread it
was used (after & 0xff) as array index.

Besides, logically it's _not_ a constant at all - not even a base + constant,
after using it in such expression...
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