Re: [PATCH 16/16] fix handling of integer constant expressions

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Al Viro wrote:
>
> > extern int a;
> > extern int as1[(a = 2)];
> 
> sparse simply doesn't check that.  We don't have anything resembling
> support of VLA.

Well, the above has two bugs that sparse could notice _independently_ of 
variable-sized arrays:
 - assignment outside of a function
 - variable size array that isn't an automatic variable

(strictly speaking, that's not even a variable size - it's a constant 2, 
just with a non-constant expression - maybe you misread the "=" as an 
"==")

		Linus
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