Re: [PATCH V2] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Feb 27 2014 - 15:26:58 EST


I would.

On February 27, 2014 12:22:45 PM PST, Christopher Li <sparse@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:32 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Quite frankly, this is silly in my opinion, *and* it is not
>guaranteed
>> by C either (read about "trap representations").
>>>
>> Anything that moves data around in a generic fashion. It can be as
>> simple as:
>>
>> memcpy(foo, bar, sizeof *foo);
>
>OK. I get it nobody wants a sizeof(_Bool) warning.
>
>I am going to apply this patch.
>
>Should we change the default to off then?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Chris

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