[LTP] [PATCH 1/3] tools/sparse: Add static check

[Cyril Hrubis]

Hi!
> >> > Thanks! pushed. Please pull and try it out.
> >> 
> >> Looks like it fails on fuzzy sync since it uses tst_ but it's in an
> >> header.
> >> 
> >> These definitions should be static inline and changing them so fixes the
> >> warnings. It looks like static inline functions does not make it into
> >> the symbol test at all.
> 
> Ah, I vaguely remember now that "static inline" is the correct way to
> include functions in header files. Otherwise they shouldn't be in header
> files. We have LTO now as well so possibly Fuzzy sync shouldn't be all
> in the header, but that's another matter.

If I recall correctly LTO is currently broken on ARM and even if that
was working we still have to support 10 years old compilers anyways...

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz