From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wedgwood Subject: Re: sparse using insane amounts of memory Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:31:06 -0800 Message-ID: <20070308173106.GA17698@tuatara.stupidest.org> References: <1173319356.3546.54.camel@johannes.berg> <1173371608.21465.12.camel@dv> <1173372315.3248.19.camel@johannes.berg> <1173374010.15842.13.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([68.142.198.203]:32252 "HELO smtp104.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752601AbXCHRhs (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Mar 2007 12:37:48 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1173374010.15842.13.camel@dv> Sender: linux-sparse-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Roskin Cc: Johannes Berg , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:13:30PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: > Reducing the file may be tricky, since there is no definite way to > say if the problem exists once the code becomes shorter. But I'll > try. Some lines are thousands of characters long, probably the result of cpp macro expansion? I see many lines over 10,000 characters long, some as much as 81,000 characters long. I'm not saying that is the cause of this, but i'd certainly be suspicious of those. I have to wonder about code that expands *that* much, more a case of macro abuse than use perhaps?