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2.4.22-bk30 and C trigraphs bugs

DISCUSSION Xose Vazquez Perez 2 participants 3 messages Oct 8, 2003 – Jan 27, 2004

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hi,

There are some mistakes with C trigraphs:

arch/m68k/atari/stram.c:                        PRINT_PROC( "??)\n" );
arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c:              die_if_kernel("Penguin instruction from Penguin mode??!?!", regs);
drivers/atm/idt77252.c:         printk("%s: PCI_COMMAND: %04x (???)\n",
drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c:    "??-out",                    /* 1C */
drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c:    "??-in",                     /* 1D */
drivers/block/acsi.c:   { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
drivers/block/acsi.c:   { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
drivers/media/video/saa7110.c:          DEBUG(printk(KERN_INFO "unknown saa7110_command??(%d)\n",cmd));
drivers/mtd/maps/sun_uflash.c:          name:           "SUNW,???-????",
drivers/scsi/ppa.c:     printk("ppa: parity error (???)\n");
drivers/scsi/ppa.c:     printk("ppa: bad interrupt (???)\n");
drivers/scsi/imm.c:     printk("imm: parity error (???)\n");
drivers/scsi/imm.c:     printk("imm: bad interrupt (???)\n");
net/rose/af_rose.c:                     callsign = "??????-?";

fixes are trivial.

Is 2.6.0-pre free of them :-?

-thanks-

#1 lore raw

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 01:44:31 +0200 Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]> wrote:

| hi,
| 
| There are some mistakes with C trigraphs:
| 
| arch/m68k/atari/stram.c:                        PRINT_PROC( "??)\n" );
| arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c:              die_if_kernel("Penguin instruction from Penguin mode??!?!", regs);
| drivers/atm/idt77252.c:         printk("%s: PCI_COMMAND: %04x (???)\n",
| drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c:    "??-out",                    /* 1C */
| drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c:    "??-in",                     /* 1D */
| drivers/block/acsi.c:   { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
| drivers/block/acsi.c:   { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
| drivers/media/video/saa7110.c:          DEBUG(printk(KERN_INFO "unknown saa7110_command??(%d)\n",cmd));
| drivers/mtd/maps/sun_uflash.c:          name:           "SUNW,???-????",
| drivers/scsi/ppa.c:     printk("ppa: parity error (???)\n");
| drivers/scsi/ppa.c:     printk("ppa: bad interrupt (???)\n");
| drivers/scsi/imm.c:     printk("imm: parity error (???)\n");
| drivers/scsi/imm.c:     printk("imm: bad interrupt (???)\n");
| net/rose/af_rose.c:                     callsign = "??????-?";
| 
| fixes are trivial.
| 
| Is 2.6.0-pre free of them  :-?

Of course not. I grepped over 100 of them in 2.6.1.

Are they a problem?

--
~Randy
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#2 lore raw
Quoted 25 lines · Randy.Dunlap

On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 01:44:31 +0200 Xose Vazquez Perez <[email protected]> wrote:

| hi,
| 
| There are some mistakes with C trigraphs:
| 
| arch/m68k/atari/stram.c:                        PRINT_PROC( "??)\n" );
| arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c:              die_if_kernel("Penguin instruction from Penguin mode??!?!", regs);
| drivers/atm/idt77252.c:         printk("%s: PCI_COMMAND: %04x (???)\n",
| drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c:    "??-out",                    /* 1C */
| drivers/acorn/scsi/acornscsi.c:    "??-in",                     /* 1D */
| drivers/block/acsi.c:   { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
| drivers/block/acsi.c:   { 0x00, "No error (??)" },
| drivers/media/video/saa7110.c:          DEBUG(printk(KERN_INFO "unknown saa7110_command??(%d)\n",cmd));
| drivers/mtd/maps/sun_uflash.c:          name:           "SUNW,???-????",
| drivers/scsi/ppa.c:     printk("ppa: parity error (???)\n");
| drivers/scsi/ppa.c:     printk("ppa: bad interrupt (???)\n");
| drivers/scsi/imm.c:     printk("imm: parity error (???)\n");
| drivers/scsi/imm.c:     printk("imm: bad interrupt (???)\n");
| net/rose/af_rose.c:                     callsign = "??????-?";
| 
| fixes are trivial.
| 
| Is 2.6.0-pre free of them  :-?
Quoted 3 lines

Of course not. I grepped over 100 of them in 2.6.1.

Are they a problem?

Visually yes, they hurt to the sight ;-)

But unless somebody uses -std or -ansi, by default GCC ignores trigraphs.

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