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

[Derek M Jones <derek@knosof.co.uk>]

Al Viro wrote:

> > > Hopefully correct handling of integer constant expressions.  Please, review.
> > Am I invoking sparse wrongly?  ./sparse -W -Wall doesn't diagnose
> > the following TU, for example.
> >
> > extern int a;
> > extern int as1[(a = 2)];
> sparse simply doesn't check that.  We don't have anything resembling
> support of VLA.
If it did support VLAs it would point out that this is
a constraint violation.  VLAs must have block or function
prototype scope.

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