Bug#794643: O: sparse -- semantic parser of source files

[Uwe Kleine-König <uwe+debian@kleine-koenig.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

Hello,

I was in contact to Pierre Habouzit <madcoder> for an update of the
sparse package.  In short Pierre isn't active any more in the open
source world and thought he orphaned sparse already.

As I don't expect any action from him, I write this bug report in
Pierre's name.

The package description is:
 Sparse, the semantic parser, provides a compiler frontend capable of
 parsing most of ANSI C as well as many GCC extensions, and a collection
 of sample compiler backends, including a static analyzer also called
 "sparse". Sparse provides a set of annotations designed to convey
 semantic information about types, such as what address space pointers
 point to, or what locks a function acquires or releases.
 .
 Sparse can be invoked directly as "sparse" or via the "cgcc" wrapper
 around the C compiler.