warning when a function's address is tested?
Falk Hueffner
falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de
Sun Oct 12 16:08:00 GMT 2003
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> We just found a silly bug in the Linux kernel:
>
> - if (current_is_kswapd)
> + if (current_is_kswapd())
>
> It was there for a year. It is a fairly easy mistake to make, and
> it would be nice if the compiler could generate a warning. I don't
> think there are likely to be legitimate uses?
Looks like a good idea. The C++ frontend already has this warning, so
it shouldn't be too hard.
--
Falk
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