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Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:22:45 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] sparse: Allow override of sizeof(bool) warning
From: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ben Pfaff <blp@nicira.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:32 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> Quite frankly, this is silly in my opinion, *and* it is not guaranteed
> by C either (read about "trap representations").
>>
> Anything that moves data around in a generic fashion.  It can be as
> simple as:
>
>         memcpy(foo, bar, sizeof *foo);

OK. I get it nobody wants a sizeof(_Bool) warning.

I am going to apply this patch.

Should we change the default to off then?

Thanks.

Chris
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