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diff --git a/Documentation/release-notes/v0.4.2.rst b/Documentation/release-notes/v0.4.2.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6e36e448 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/release-notes/v0.4.2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,173 @@ +v0.4.2 (2009-10-16) +=================== + +I have tagged and released the sparse version 0.4.2 at http://ftp.be.debian.org/pub/software/devel/sparse/dist/ with sha1sum a2adef3f78c7409e8c0bb80941f473d775afcac4 + +As previously discussed on the sparse mailing list, I am the new maintainer of +the sparse project. This is my first release for sparse. +Thanks Josh Triplett for the previous maintenance of the project. + +I also created a new sparse wiki, it will replace the current sparse +home page. https://sparse.wiki.kernel.org/ + +A lot of bug fixes and enhancements have gone into this release. +Special thanks to Al Viro for overhauling the parser. Now sparse +has better ctype and attribute handling. The detailed changes follow. + +Al Viro (39): + * saner warnings for restricted types + * fix show_typename() + * catch !x & y brainos + * fun with declarations and definitions + * Fix type_info_expression() + * fun with declarations and definitions + * Fix handling of ident-less declarations + * Separate parsing of identifier-list (in K&R-style declarations) + * More nested declarator fixes + * Fix attribute/asm handling + * more direct_declarator() sanitizing + * Warn about non-empty identifier list outside of definition + * Apply attributes after ( to the right place + * Leave applying attributes until we know whether it's a nested declarator + * Don't mess with passing symbol to declarator/direct_declarator + * Fix braino in which_kind() + * Sanitize direct_declarator logics + * Separating ctype and parser state, part 1 + * Propagate decl_state to declaration_specifiers() + * Fix regression created by commit af30c6df74f01db10fa78ac0cbdb5c3c40b5c73f + * Take the rest of storage class keywords to parse.c + * Fix handling of typedefs with several declarators + * preparations to ->declarator() cleanup - separate typedef handling + * Take the rest of specifiers to parse.c + * Saner type for __builtin_va_list + * Rewrite and fix specifiers handling + * Have ->declarator() act directly on ctype being affected + * Clean up and split declaration_specifiers() + * Pass decl_state down to ->declarator() and handle_attributes() + * Pass decl_state down to ->attribute() + * Restore __attribute__((mode)) handling + * Fix enumeration constants' scope beginning + * Fix declaration_specifiers() handling of typedef name shadowed by NS_SYMBOL + * Fix __label__ handling + * Simplify get_number_value() and ctype_integer() + * Don't mix storage class bits with ctype->modifiers while parsing type + * Sanitize pointer() + * Segfault at evaluate.c:341 + * warn directive in argument list + +Alberto Bertogli (1): + * Support the __thread storage class + +Alexander Shishkin (1): + * don't call sparse when called to generate dependencies + +Alexey Zaytsev (16): + * Remove symbol.id_list + * Replace the -specs cgcc option with -target + * Make show_symbol newline-consistent + * Handle a terminal -o option properly. + * Looks more evident this way. + * Mark handle_switch as static and don't export it from lib.h + * Handle missing argument to -D. + * Gdb macros to get a better look at some sparse data structures. + * A slightly edited irc discussion with Josh Triplett. + * Warning should be enough for an unhandled transparent union + * Set gcc include path at runtime. + * Let cgcc pass -gcc-base-dir to sparse. + * Document -gcc-base-dir in sparse.1 + * Rename dirafter to idirafter. + * Let void have sizeof 1 + * Also warn about sizeof(function) + +Blue Swirl (6): + * Sparc64 (Sparc V9, LP64) support + * OpenBSD support + * Ignore attribute __bounded__, used by OpenBSD headers. + * Add c{l,t}z{,l,ll}, ffsl{,l}, popcountll and floating point comparison builtins. + * Add support for TImode type (__int128_t) + * Define __LP64__ for x86_64 unless in 32 bit mode + +Christopher Li (11): + * Evaluate iterator symbols + * Remove pre_buffer + * Add enum member list to the parent + * Teach classify_type to handle typeof + * Warn about explicit usage of sizeof(void) + * Makefile automatic header dependency + * Clean up Makefile long lines + * Update the validation check for ftabstop= + * Add validation for restrict and attribute warning + * move extern inline function to file scope + * Sparse 0.4.2 + +David Given (2): + * Unhardcode byte size being 8 bits. + * Add type information to struct instruction. + +Geoff Johnstone (4): + * Add support for GCC's -std=... and -ansi command line options. + * Add builtin functions for use with __FORTIFY_SOURCE + * Fix type mismatches with incomplete types + * Add -Wno-declaration-after-statement + +Hannes Eder (4): + * Add -ftabstop=WIDTH + * refactor handle_switch_f + * test-suite: be more verbose on 'unhandled' and 'known to fail' tests + * test-suite: integrate unhandled proprocessor tests + +Johannes Berg (8): + * cgcc: handle ppc arch + * make sparse keep its promise about context tracking + * sparse test suite: add test mixing __context__ and __attribute__((context(...))) + * sparse: simple conditional context tracking + * inlined call bugfix & test + * improve -Wcontext code and messages + * fix bug in context tracking code + * Revert the context tracking code + +Josh Triplett (2): + * Add test case for new warning about !x & y + * Expand "dubious !x & y" handling to other combinations of !, &, and \|. + +Kamil Dudka (4): + * compile-i386: do not generate an infinite loop + * linearize.h: sanitize header + * unssa: track uses when replacing a phi node + * make sparse headers self-compilable... + +Linus Torvalds (5): + * Fix cast instruction generation + * Simplify (and warn about) right shifts that result in zero + * Allow array declarators to have 'restrict' in them + * Turn off '-Wtransparent-union' by default + * Avoid "attribute 'warning': unknown attribute" warning + +Martin Nagy (3): + * .gitignore: Ignore dependencies and Vim swap files + * Add missing checks for Waddress-space + * Print an error if typeof() lacks an argument + +Pavel Roskin (1): + * Ignore "cold" and "hot" attributes, which appeared in gcc 4.3 + +Pekka Enberg (1): + * sparse: Add GCC pre-defined macros for user-space + +Ramsay Jones (1): + * Makefile: suppress error message from pkg-config + +Reinhard Tartler (1): + * show_token: handle TOKEN_UNTAINT and TOKEN_ARG_COUNT types + +Samuel Bronson (1): + * Have Makefile import local.mk if it exists. + +Thomas Schmid (1): + * Fix implicit cast to float + +Vegard Nossum (2): + * Fix use of invalid file descriptor + * Set \*tree to NULL on error + +-- Chris Li |