On 03/30/2014 06:48 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Hans Verkuil <hverk...@xs4all.nl> wrote:
>>
>> which is clearly a sparse bug somewhere.
>
> Yes. What is going on is that we create separate symbols for each
> declaration, and we tie them all together (and warn if they have
> conflicting types).
>
> But then when we look up a symbol, we only look at the latest one, so
> when we size the array, we look at that "extern" declaration, and
> don't see the size that was created with the initializer.
>
> I'll think about how to fix it cleanly. Expect a patch shortly.
Great!
Tomorrow I'll try to write test cases for the two other sparse problems
I found.
Regards,
Hans
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