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| author | Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> | 2006-06-23 02:06:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-06-23 07:43:09 -0700 |
| commit | e83319510b04dd51a60da8a0b4ccf8b92b3ab1ad (patch) | |
| tree | e51972f61ee5e84b7312ae609352588b45462526 /Documentation/sparse.txt | |
| parent | eefe85ee350ece1bdf3e9a61e941d3394a528660 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e83319510b04dd51a60da8a0b4ccf8b92b3ab1ad.tar.bz2 | |
[PATCH] docs: update sparse.txt with CHECK_ENDIAN
Update the sparse documentation to omit the -Wbitwise flag example (as it
is now passed by default), and document the kernel defines to enable
endianness checking.
Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sparse.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sparse.txt | 36 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sparse.txt b/Documentation/sparse.txt index 3f1c5464b1c9..5a311c38dd1a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sparse.txt +++ b/Documentation/sparse.txt @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ Copyright 2004 Linus Torvalds Copyright 2004 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> +Copyright 2006 Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Using sparse for typechecking ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -41,15 +42,8 @@ sure that bitwise types don't get mixed up (little-endian vs big-endian vs cpu-endian vs whatever), and there the constant "0" really _is_ special. -Use - - make C=[12] CF=-Wbitwise - -or you don't get any checking at all. - - -Where to get sparse -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +Getting sparse +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ With git, you can just get it from @@ -57,7 +51,7 @@ With git, you can just get it from and DaveJ has tar-balls at - http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/ + http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/git-snapshots/sparse/ Once you have it, just do @@ -65,8 +59,20 @@ Once you have it, just do make make install -as your regular user, and it will install sparse in your ~/bin directory. -After that, doing a kernel make with "make C=1" will run sparse on all the -C files that get recompiled, or with "make C=2" will run sparse on the -files whether they need to be recompiled or not (ie the latter is fast way -to check the whole tree if you have already built it). +as a regular user, and it will install sparse in your ~/bin directory. + +Using sparse +~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Do a kernel make with "make C=1" to run sparse on all the C files that get +recompiled, or use "make C=2" to run sparse on the files whether they need to +be recompiled or not. The latter is a fast way to check the whole tree if you +have already built it. + +The optional make variable CF can be used to pass arguments to sparse. The +build system passes -Wbitwise to sparse automatically. To perform endianness +checks, you may define __CHECK_ENDIAN__: + + make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" + +These checks are disabled by default as they generate a host of warnings. |