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From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To:	Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sparse: Increase pre_buffer[] and check overflow
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:28:05AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote:
> I got this error when running sparse on mips kernel with gcc 4.3:
> 
> builtin:272:1: warning: Newline in string or character constant
> 
> The linus-mips kernel uses '$(CC) -dM -E' to generates arguments for
> sparse.  With gcc 4.3, it generates lot of '-D' options and causes
> pre_buffer overflow.

Why does mips have this need when all other archs does not?
We should fix sparse so it is dynamically allocated - but
that is not an excuse for mips to use odd stuff like this.

So please someone from mips land explain why this is needed.

	Sam