On 22.04.2009 22:50 Uhr, ron minnich wrote:

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Joseph Smith <joe@settoplinux.org> wrote:

This really sounds like an unitialized variable or a bad pointer.

Wouldn't gcc catch these and error when building?



not always. that's what sparse can be useful for.

ron

BTW: I did a new scanbuild run today: http://www.coresystems.de/~stepan/coreboot-scanbuild/

Patches and bug fixes are welcome.

If anyone succeeds to get sparse running with coreboot, i'll give it a try, too. It didn't work all too well when i tried.

Stefan

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