2007-03-21 16:16:28

by Dave Kleikamp

Subject: using sparse to catch endian errors

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
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center