sparse adj : not dense; "a thin beard"; "trees were sparse" [syn: thin]

English

Adjective

1. Having widely spaced intervals.
2. Not dense; meager.

Derived terms

• sparse array
• sparse index
• sparse matrix

Related terms

• thin out

Translations

Italian

Verb

sparse

1. Form of Third-person singular past historic, spargere
2. Form of Third-person singular past historic, sparere

sparse

1. Plural of sparso

In computer science, Sparse is a tool designed to find possible coding faults in the Linux kernel. This static analysis tool differed from other such tools in that it was initially designed to flag constructs that were only likely to be of interest to kernel developers (e.g., mixing pointers to user address space and pointers to kernel address space)

Sparse contains built-in checks for known problematic and 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.

Linus Torvalds started writing Sparse in 2003 and since 2006 it has been maintained by Josh Triplett. Sparse is released under the Open Software License, version 1.1.

External links

• Sparse web page

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