On 1/30/25 12:01, Kevin Traynor wrote:
> On 29/01/2025 16:37, Ilya Maximets wrote:
>> On 1/28/25 16:53, David Marchand wrote:
>>> Since sparse v0.6.4 (which is 3 years old and happens to be the latest
>>> official release), GCC atomic builtins are recognised by sparse
>>> (see below first three links).
>>
>> We have a minimal sparse version documented.  I suppose that version
>> should be updated by this commit if we're going to rely on functionality
>> introduced in a newer release.
>>
> 
> LGTM. I can make that small doc change while applying.
> 
> I don't think we should backport to 3.4 and ask for a dependency upgrade
> at this stage. 3.5 is not released, so i think we could backport to 3.5
> to correctly document the required sparse verison. Any opinions ?

It's not a bug fix per se, but since it only removes the unnecessary
code and doesn't affect end users, I think, it's fine to port to 3.5.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.
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