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From: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>
To: Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Norman Diamond <ndiamond@wta.att.ne.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RH7.3 can't compile 2.6.0-test8 (fs/proc/array.c)
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 16:37:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031021143741.GB22633@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031021135221.GA22633@localhost>

On Tuesday October 21st 2003 at 15:52 uur Marco Roeland wrote:

> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106651554401143&w=2
> > 
> > It's supposed to fix test8 compile with gcc-2.96 for RedHat 7.x.
> 
> Perhaps if the huge sprintf with 40+ arguments (fs/proc/array.c, line 346)
> amongst which several trinary operators, were to be split up into several
> parts, might that not solve the problem more elegantly?

Does this compile (and work) for any of you friendly RedHat 7.[23] users? 
In 2.6.0-test8 yet another argument was added to the monstrous sprintf.
Perhaps this was just the droplet to overflow gcc-2.96's buckets? Here we
split it into 3 distinct parts.

--- linux-2.6.0-test8/fs/proc/array.c.orig	2003-10-21 16:18:40.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.0-test8/fs/proc/array.c	2003-10-21 16:24:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -343,9 +343,7 @@
 	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 	ppid = task->pid ? task->real_parent->pid : 0;
 	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
-	res = sprintf(buffer,"%d (%s) %c %d %d %d %d %d %lu %lu \
-%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %ld %ld %ld %ld %d %ld %llu %lu %ld %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu \
-%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %d %d %lu %lu\n",
+	res = sprintf(buffer,"%d (%s) %c %d %d %d %d %d %lu %lu ",
 		task->pid,
 		task->comm,
 		state,
@@ -355,7 +353,8 @@
 		tty_nr,
 		tty_pgrp,
 		task->flags,
-		task->min_flt,
+		task->min_flt);
+	res += sprintf(buffer + res,"%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %ld %ld %ld %ld %d %ld %llu %lu %ld %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu ",
 		task->cmin_flt,
 		task->maj_flt,
 		task->cmaj_flt,
@@ -375,7 +374,8 @@
 		mm ? mm->start_code : 0,
 		mm ? mm->end_code : 0,
 		mm ? mm->start_stack : 0,
-		esp,
+		esp);
+	res += sprintf(buffer + res,"%lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %lu %d %d %lu %lu\n",
 		eip,
 		/* The signal information here is obsolete.
 		 * It must be decimal for Linux 2.0 compatibility.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-21 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-21 13:19 RH7.3 can't compile 2.6.0-test8 rwhron
2003-10-21 13:52 ` Marco Roeland
2003-10-21 14:37   ` Marco Roeland [this message]
2003-10-21 20:12     ` [PATCH] RH7.3 can't compile 2.6.0-test8 (fs/proc/array.c) Paul Larson
2003-10-21 20:46     ` bill davidsen
2003-10-22 10:36     ` Norman Diamond
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-23  1:16 ndiamond
2003-10-23  7:48 ` Marco Roeland

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