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diff --git a/Documentation/release-notes/v0.5.2.rst b/Documentation/release-notes/v0.5.2.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..d81ec5f8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/release-notes/v0.5.2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +v0.5.2 (2018-04-30) +=================== + +The latest release of sparse have been pushed to the official +repository. It's a smaller release than the previous one but +it contains some important changes to not be flooded by unimportant +warnings while compiling the kernel. + +The most notable changes are: + +* better tracking and handling of expression constness +* fix bug with variadic macros +* less warnings on unknown attributes (none by default now) +* teach sparse about __builtin_{isinf_sign,isfinite,isnan} +* various update to the documentation +* do selfcheck with the locally built sparse +* some fixes or improvements for build (armhf, GNU/kfreebsd, ...) +* also evaluate files included via -include + + +Many thanks to everyone involved. + +Luc Van Oostenryck + +--- + +Al Viro (1): + * Sparse preprocessing bug with zero-arg variadic macros + +Christopher Li (8): + * gcc attr: add nonstring warn_if_not_aligned + * Makefile: provide CFLAGS for command line override. + * Give the constant pseudo value a size + * sparse-llvm: use pseudo->size to select llvm integer type + * Update gcc attribute list + * Fix crash cause by previous pseudo size change + +Jacob Keller (1): + * sparse: document that -Wbitwise is default + +Logan Gunthorpe (1): + * add __builtin functions for isinf_sign, isfinite and isnan + +Luc Van Oostenryck (13): + * constexpr: rename handle_simple_initializer() to handle_initializer() + * constexpr: collect storage modifiers of initializers + * return an error if too few args + * give default return type in evaluate_call() + * constexpr: flag __builtin_bswap() as constexpr + * build: disable sparse-llvm on non-x86 + * fix cgcc ELF version for ppc64/pcc64le + * fix: missing evaluate with '-include' : add testcase + * fix: missing evaluate with '-include' + * Revert "Give the constant pseudo value a size" + * By default disable the warning flag '-Wunknown-attribute' + * bump up version to 0.5.2-RC1 + * Sparse v0.5.2 + +Martin Kepplinger (2): + * compile-i386.c: fix a memory leak in sort_array() + * compile-i386: make use of expression_list_size() + +Nicolai Stange (20): + * constexpr: introduce additional expression constness tracking flags + * constexpr: init flags at expression allocation + * constexpr: examine constness of casts at evaluation only + * constexpr: examine constness of binops and alike at evaluation only + * constexpr: examine constness of preops at evaluation only + * constexpr: examine constness of conditionals at evaluation only + * constexpr: add support for tagging arithmetic constant expressions + * constexpr: add support for tagging address constants + * constexpr: check static storage duration objects' intializers' constness + * constexpr: recognize static objects as address constants + * constexpr: recognize address constants created through casts + * constexpr: recognize address constants created through pointer arithmetic + * constexpr: recognize members of static compound objects as address constants + * constexpr: recognize string literals as address constants + * constexpr: recognize references to labels as address constants + * constexpr: examine constness of __builtin_offsetof at evaluation only + * constexpr: flag builtins constant_p, safe_p and warning as constexprs + * constexpr: relax some constant expression rules for pointer expressions + * constexpr: support compound literals as address constants + * constexpr: treat comparisons between types as integer constexpr + +Ramsay Jones (1): + * Makefile: use locally built sparse in the selfcheck target + +Randy Dunlap (5): + * sparse: minor manpage corrections + * Documentation: make data-structures.txt easier to read + * Documentation: editing fixes in test-suite + * test-suite: handle format with filename.c not existing + * sparse: ignore indirect_branch attribute + +Uwe Kleine-König (4): + * build: remove version.h in clean target + * cgcc: teach cgcc about GNU/kFreeBSD + * compile-i386: Use SPARSE_VERSION instead of __DATE__ + * cgcc: provide __ARM_PCS_VFP for armhf |