reproduce:
        # apt-get install sparse
        # sparse version: v0.6.4-66-g0196afe1-dirty
        git remote add mlankhorst git://people.freedesktop.org/~mlankhorst/linux
        git fetch --no-tags mlankhorst xe
        git checkout 11eba233922d88a72241f11043ba4cbc60f5a244
        # save the config file
        mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config
        make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ -fmax-errors=unlimited -fmax-warnings=unlimited' O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 olddefconfig
        make W=1 C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ -fmax-errors=unlimited -fmax-warnings=unlimited' O=build_dir ARCH=x86_64 SHELL=/bin/bash