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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] [SPARSE] increase MAXNEST constant
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2003 13:53:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200306211353.43512.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)

The MAXNEST constant in sparse is currently too small for
checking most of the kernel files. The deepest nesting
I found in the kernel is 25, so MAXNEST=32 should probably
be sufficient. It would be nice to check overruns here,
but I did not know where to best do it.

The problem is hidden when sparse is compiled with gcc-3.2 
or earlier, but causes segmentation faults with gcc-3.3.

	Arnd <><

===== pre-process.c 1.65 vs edited =====
--- 1.65/pre-process.c	Wed Jun 11 01:03:25 2003
+++ edited/pre-process.c	Sat Jun 21 13:26:03 2003
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 int verbose = 0;
 int preprocessing = 0;
 
-#define MAXNEST (16)
+#define MAXNEST (32)
 static int true_nesting = 0;
 static int false_nesting = 0;
 static struct token *unmatched_if = NULL;

             reply	other threads:[~2003-06-21 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-06-21 11:53 Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2003-06-21 17:05 ` [PATCH] [SPARSE] increase MAXNEST constant Linus Torvalds

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