Re: [coreboot] unexpected exception errors loading vga rom

[Joseph Smith]

On Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:54:08 +0200, Stefan Reinauer 
wrote:
> On 22.04.2009 22:50 Uhr, ron minnich wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Joseph Smith
>
> 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.

Wow looks like there are alot of bugs in romcc.c !