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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com>
Cc: Julien Thierry <julien.thierry@arm.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-4.20-rc1/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c:576: possible cut'n'paste error
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 16:37:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181106163724.GK30658@n2100.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR08MB33427CD1C653245DBB979B9B9CCB0@VI1PR08MB3342.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 04:33:26PM +0000, David Binderman wrote:
> hello there Russell,
> 
> > linux-4.20-rc1/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c:576]: (warning) Redundant assignment of >'ufp_exc->fpinst2' to itself.
> 
> >Thanks for the report - it most certainly is a bug introduced by
> >Julien's patches, but I don't get your warning here.  Which compiler
> >produces that warning?
> 
> Not a compiler, cppcheck, a static analyser for C and C++ code.
> 
> Interestingly, more of the same in file linux-4.20-rc1/arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa3xx.c
> 
> [linux-4.20-rc1/arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa3xx.c:84]: (warning) Redundant assignment of 'ASCR' to itself.
> [linux-4.20-rc1/arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa3xx.c:85]: (warning) Redundant assignment of 'ARSR' to itself.
> [linux-4.20-rc1/arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa3xx.c:120]: (warning) Redundant assignment of 'ASCR' to itself.
> [linux-4.20-rc1/arch/arm/mach-pxa/pxa3xx.c:121]: (warning) Redundant assignment of 'ARSR' to itself.
> 
> I don't know if these four are also worth fixing.

There are cases where this can be false positives.  In the case of a
status register with write-1-to-clear bits for example.  These ones
look very much like that.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-11-06 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <VI1PR08MB33420789A2AA1096D3F5FC9D9CCA0@VI1PR08MB3342.eurprd08.prod.outlook.com>
2018-11-06 16:20   ` linux-4.20-rc1/arch/arm/vfp/vfpmodule.c:576: possible cut'n'paste error Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-06 16:29     ` Julien Thierry
2018-11-06 16:39       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-11-06 16:44         ` Julien Thierry
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2018-11-06 16:37       ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2018-11-10 17:54         ` Robert Jarzmik

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