v0.4.4 (2011-11-25)

This is a long due release. The sparse 0.4.4 can be downloaded from:

https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/

The new sparse has a lot of bugs fixes. It will report less noise while checking the new kernel tree. It compiles better with the new gcc as well.

The sparse project is in the process of moving to the MIT license. Dan is coordinating the efforts. Most sparse developers sign off the MIT license already. If you haven’t done so, please contact Dan off the list regarding the new license.

Here is the short summery of the changes in this release.

Have a nice long week end.

Chris

Ben Pfaff (1):
  • evaluate: Allow sizeof(_Bool) to succeed.
Christopher Li (13):
  • inspect: adding function arugument list
  • Allow overwrite CFLAGS from command line
  • Ignore attribute vector_size
  • Remove set but not used variable
  • inspect: Add switch statement and more
  • validation: inline switch statement
  • Fix inlining switch statement.
  • Sparse 0.4.4-rc1
  • Add test case for empty asm clobbers
  • Fix parsing empty asm clobber
  • Sparse 0.4.4-rc2
  • Add test case for binary constants
  • sparse 0.4.4
Dan Carpenter (1):
  • recognize binary constants
Diego Elio Pettenò (3):
  • build: allow easy override of GCC_BASE
  • build: add an all-installable target that builds the targets to install.
  • Fix build with GCC 4.6 series.
Florian Fainelli (1):
  • Makefile: warn user when libxml and/or libgtk2 are not available
Jan Pokorný (4):
  • remove unused “container” macro
  • flow.c: make comment for ‘dominates’ reflect code
  • use ARRAY_SIZE() when possible (continued)
  • parse.c: “if(” -> “if (” adjustment
Jonathan Neuschäfer (3):
  • fix a memory leak in compile-i386.c
  • FAQ: fix a typo (“because or”)
  • fix common misspellings with codespell
Kamil Dudka (2):
  • cse: treat PHI-nodes as other instructions
  • cse: update PHI users when throwing away an instruction
Linus Torvalds (5):
  • Add new streams to a hash-list based on their names
  • Teach ‘already_tokenized()’ to use the stream name hash table
  • Make ‘linearize_iterator()’ helper function
  • Make ‘linearize_switch()’ helper function
  • Make ‘linearize_return()’ helper function
Michael Stefaniuc (1):
  • Ignore the ms_hook_prologue attribute.
Namhyung Kim (3):
  • use ARRAY_SIZE() when possible
  • Fix tokenizer for octal escape sequences
  • Update the validation check for escape sequences
Nicolas Kaiser (1):
  • memops.c: always true expression
Pekka Enberg (4):
  • sparse: Add ‘artifical’ to ignore attributes
  • sparse: Enable unhandled validation tests
  • Show expected vs. actual output on test failure
  • sparse: Fix __builtin_safe_p for pure and const functions