[Ksummit-discuss] coverity, static checking etc.

[Jiri Kosina]

On Fri, 9 May 2014, Johannes Berg wrote:

> > I'd also like to nominate Christopher Li, for Sparse.
> 
> Seconded, I'm also interested in general in whether people still think
> sparse is useful and we should give it attention, or should focus more
> on really getting everything into gcc - we have a number of sparse
> warnings in very low-level header files that get used everywhere, for
> example the one I just fixed in [1] or the one I tried to fix but that
> ended up being buggy ([2]), but there doesn't seem to be much attention
> to these during the patch submission etc.

Just for the sake of datapoint -- running 'make C=1' before every git push 
is part of my automated workflow. So yes, I am routinely using sparse.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs