2004-01-19 23:42:41

by Randy.Dunlap

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Subject: Re: 2.4.22-bk30 and C trigraphs bugs

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 01:44:31 +0200 Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]> wrote:

| hi,
|
| There are some mistakes with C trigraphs:
|
| arch/m68k/atari/stram.c: PRINT_PROC( "??)\n" );
| arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c: die_if_kernel("Penguin instruction from Penguin mode??!?!", regs);
| drivers/atm/idt77252.c: printk("%s: PCI_COMMAND: %04x (???)\n",
| drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c: "??-out", /* 1C */
| drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c: "??-in", /* 1D */
| drivers/block/acsi.c: { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
| drivers/block/acsi.c: { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
| drivers/media/video/saa7110.c: DEBUG(printk(KERN_INFO "unknown saa7110_command??(%d)\n",cmd));
| drivers/mtd/maps/sun_uflash.c: name: "SUNW,???-????",
| drivers/scsi/ppa.c: printk("ppa: parity error (???)\n");
| drivers/scsi/ppa.c: printk("ppa: bad interrupt (???)\n");
| drivers/scsi/imm.c: printk("imm: parity error (???)\n");
| drivers/scsi/imm.c: printk("imm: bad interrupt (???)\n");
| net/rose/af_rose.c: callsign = "??????-?";
|
| fixes are trivial.
|
| Is 2.6.0-pre free of them :-?

Of course not. I grepped over 100 of them in 2.6.1.

Are they a problem?

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2004-01-27 16:27:37

by Xose Vazquez Perez

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Subject: Re: 2.4.22-bk30 and C trigraphs bugs

Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 01:44:31 +0200 Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> | hi,
> |
> | There are some mistakes with C trigraphs:
> |
> | arch/m68k/atari/stram.c: PRINT_PROC( "??)\n" );
> | arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c: die_if_kernel("Penguin instruction from Penguin mode??!?!", regs);
> | drivers/atm/idt77252.c: printk("%s: PCI_COMMAND: %04x (???)\n",
> | drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c: "??-out", /* 1C */
> | drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c: "??-in", /* 1D */
> | drivers/block/acsi.c: { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
> | drivers/block/acsi.c: { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
> | drivers/media/video/saa7110.c: DEBUG(printk(KERN_INFO "unknown saa7110_command??(%d)\n",cmd));
> | drivers/mtd/maps/sun_uflash.c: name: "SUNW,???-????",
> | drivers/scsi/ppa.c: printk("ppa: parity error (???)\n");
> | drivers/scsi/ppa.c: printk("ppa: bad interrupt (???)\n");
> | drivers/scsi/imm.c: printk("imm: parity error (???)\n");
> | drivers/scsi/imm.c: printk("imm: bad interrupt (???)\n");
> | net/rose/af_rose.c: callsign = "??????-?";
> |
> | fixes are trivial.
> |
> | Is 2.6.0-pre free of them :-?
>
> Of course not. I grepped over 100 of them in 2.6.1.
>
> Are they a problem?

Visually yes, they hurt to the sight ;-)

But unless somebody uses -std or -ansi, by default GCC
ignores trigraphs.

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