v0.2 (2006-12-05)

I have tagged and tarballed a 0.2 release of Sparse, now available from http://ftp.be.debian.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/, with sha1sum 1762fc609fe436e74b87356a52690b5f7bb40c81.

In addition to plenty of bug fixes, this release includes several notable new features:

  • -Wall, thanks to Pavel Roskin

  • ‘#strong_define’ and ‘#strong_undef’, thanks to Oleg Nesterov

  • Argument parsing functions no longer mangle the argv passed to them, thanks to Christopher Li

  • static library and header files now installed, along with a pkg-config file to find them

  • Makefile now supports DESTDIR, useful for packagers

Full changelog:

Christopher Li (4):

  • trivial fix for seg fault.

  • Fix warning on self check.

  • delay removing file scope

  • cleanup write to argument array hack

Damien Lespiau (1):

  • trivial: more .gitignore stuff

Josh Triplett (5):

  • Update the FAQ: add sparse website and gitweb, update git URL, remove old BK url

  • Rename “check.c” to “sparse.c” to match program name; update .gitignore

  • Install static library and header files

  • Generate and install a pkg-config file. Add DESTDIR support to Makefile.

  • Remove old SCCS target from Makefile.

Nicolas Kaiser (1):

  • double inclusions

Oleg Nesterov (7):

  • use lookup_macro() in handle_undef()

  • kill NS_INVISIBLEMACRO, introduce NS_UNDEF

  • fix redefine of #weak_define

  • fix ‘weak’ attribute loss

  • prepare for #strong_{define,undef}

  • implement #strong_define

  • implement #strong_undef

Pavel Roskin (1):

  • Support -Wall flag

– Josh Triplett