On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 03:27:25PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > The introduction of these dummy BUILD_BUG_ON stubs dates back to > commit 903c0c7cdc21 ("sparse: define dummy BUILD_BUG_ON definition > for sparse"). At that time, BUILD_BUG_ON() was implemented with the > negative array trick, which Sparse complains about even if the > condition can be optimized and evaluated to 0 at compile-time.
OK, but from what I understand, the motivation for commit 903c0c7cdc21 was not to avoid false warnings but to avoid having twice the same warnings: "... So it causes sparse to detect an error too. This reduces sparse's usefulness."). I'm not opposed to this patch (on the contrary, I think it's better to have exactly the same code for GCC than for sparse) but I think that your commit message need to be adjusted. Kind regards, -- Luc