* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-25 at 12:44 +0200, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't understand why the local variable box needs to
> > be declared static here:
> >
> > static struct intel_uncore_box *
> > uncore_pmu_to_box(struct intel_uncore_pmu *pmu, int cpu)
> > {
> > static struct intel_uncore_box *box;
> >
> > box = *per_cpu_ptr(pmu->box, cpu);
> > if (box)
> > return box;
> > ....
> > }
>
> Uhmm.. me neither.. that looks like a bug indeed.
the compiler (or Sparse) should refuse function local statics
really.
Thanks,
Ingo
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