From: Dave Kleikamp Subject: using sparse to catch endian errors Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 11:16:26 -0500 Message-ID: <1174493786.13386.4.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ext4 development Return-path: Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:57633 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932891AbXCUQQ2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:16:28 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2LGGR0S010706 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:16:27 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v8.3) with ESMTP id l2LGGR1Y225974 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:16:27 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l2LGGQ4a020432 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:16:26 -0400 Received: from [9.53.41.164] (dyn95341164.austin.ibm.com [9.53.41.164]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l2LGGQWC020387 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:16:26 -0400 Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On the conference call, I promised to share the syntax for running sparse to check for endian problems. I use the alias: alias make_sparse='make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__"' Then run "make_sparse fs/jbd2/ fs/ext4/" Thanks, Shaggy -- David Kleikamp IBM Linux Technology Center