TODO: RESERVE_CONFIG_BUFFER [was: Re: Pending patches status?]

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Thu Mar 2 22:07:59 UTC 2006


On Thursday 02 March 2006 3:35 pm, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 02:53:59PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> >On Thursday 02 March 2006 2:18 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> >
> >                                                  I'm taking a whack at
> > the tar thing in a slightly different way (using bb_common_bufsiz1 and
> > memset to create a large write inline, need to test it before checking it
> > in...)
> >
> >The others I'd like to get back to on monday.
>
> I want to
> ifneq ($(EXTRAVERSION),)
> $(call check_gcc,CFLAGS,-Wlarger-than-63,)
> endif
>
> For anything which is not an actual release, warn about anything which
> is larger than 63 Bytes ¹) to _encourage_ the use of
> RESERVE_CONFIG_BUFFER and friends.

We have a debug options menu.  Put a config option in there.

Rob
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