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| author | Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> | 2020-06-16 02:00:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> | 2020-06-16 07:03:52 +0200 |
| commit | 729e241bf89a4c654594c10f193741c62c8a7f82 (patch) | |
| tree | 611172871d9d2d9fa64230f9b8112eebd5c3a091 /Documentation/release-notes/v0.5.2.rst | |
| parent | 78f577f89447b138982b512ce71bc13a4160e487 (diff) | |
| download | sparse-dev-729e241bf89a4c654594c10f193741c62c8a7f82.tar.gz | |
doc: copy the old relnotes here
The releases notes of the versions previously released
are stored on the wiki.
Copy them here too (with minimal changes in the markup),
so that everything is centralized here.
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
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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 |