Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Apr 2009 09:52:46 -0400 (EDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [rfc] built-in native compiler for Linux? |
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On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> If this was about teaching sparse to run lockdep at compile time, or > generally about making the kernel compilation much faster and able to > catch many more bugs there might be a point where the effort is worth > the investment.
The preprocessor and its interaction with regular C code is quite nasty. If sparse could get rid of the complexities and idiosyncrasies at that level then it may be useful as a "pre" compiler.
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