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SubjectRe: [ACPI] Call for help: list of machines with working S3
Vernon Mauery schrieb:
> Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>
>>1. A first step towards better DSDTs would be to make the ASL compiler
>>complain about the same things which are complained about by the
>>in-kernel ACPI interpreter. An example would be the following:
>>
>>acpi_processor-0496 [10] acpi_processor_get_inf: Invalid PBLK length [7]
>>
>>The ASL compiler will not complain about it, yet the kernel will
>>refuse to do any processor throttling with a PBLK length of 7.
>
>
> This is like getting gcc to complain about run-time bugs in a program.

Oh, gcc does that to a certain extent. For example, it has warnings
like "this comparison is always true" or "value too big for selected
type".


> The compiler of a language (ASL in this case) compiles the language,
> regardless of run-time bugs because it can only detect syntax errors.
> And iasl does that pretty well.

It is possible to do quite a bit of semantic verification at compile
time, but of course there are limits to everything.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel
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