Re: [PATCH] sparse: Increase pre_buffer[] and check overflow

[Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>]

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:39:45 +0100, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> So...  Only 3 symbols out of the entire bunch are arch-dependent *and* not
> provided by sparse itself.  Absolute majority of the rest is never ever
> used in the tree.
> 
> I very much doubt that mips situation is seriously different...

Then, how about this?  Ralf, is this filter reasonable?


Subject: [PATCH] mips: reduce symbols passed to CHECKFLAGS

Without this patch, gcc 4.3 will produces so many symbols and causes
pre_buffer[] overflow in sparse.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
---
diff --git a/arch/mips/Makefile b/arch/mips/Makefile
index d319cd6..6c4eb9f 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Makefile
+++ b/arch/mips/Makefile
@@ -619,7 +619,7 @@ LDFLAGS                     += -m $(ld-emul)
 
 ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
 CHECKFLAGS += $(shell $(CC) $(KBUILD_CFLAGS) -dM -E -xc /dev/null | \
-       egrep -vw '__GNUC_(|MINOR_|PATCHLEVEL_)_' | \
+       egrep '(MIPS|mips|_ABI|_TYPE__)' | \
        sed -e 's/^\#define /-D/' -e "s/ /='/" -e "s/$$/'/")
 ifdef CONFIG_64BIT
 CHECKFLAGS             += -m64