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Re: [PATCH] Support SPARSE in Makefile, better SPARSE_FLAGS

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Sep 30, 2005, 22:16 UTC
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Pavel Roskin wrote:
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> I know.  That's what I'm using in the wrapper (plus -m64 and some
> warnings).  But it should be the default.  Until then, hassle-free
> sparse support in the Makefile is only possible for the projects that
> already know the architecture (e.g. the Linux kernel).
>

I think that's debatable. It introduces main-compiler dependencies into sparse which is undesirable.

A much simpler option would be to write a "sparsegcc" script which would be invoked just like gcc, extract the appropriate macro information based on options, and then invoke sparse.

	-hpa
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