Re: COMMAND_LINE_SIZE and CONFIG_FRAME_WARN

[Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Dmitri Vorobiev
<dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Dmitri Vorobiev
> <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> wrote:
>>> Recently COMMAND_LINE_SIZE (CL_SIZE) was extended to 4096 from 512.
>>> (commit 22242681 "MIPS: Extend COMMAND_LINE_SIZE")
>>>
>>> This cause warning if something like buf[CL_SIZE] was declared as a
>>> local variable, for example in prom_init_cmdline() on some platforms.
>>>
>>> And since many Makefiles in arch/mips enables -Werror, this cause
>>> build failure.
>>>
>>> How can we avoid this error?
>>>
>>> - do not use local array? (but dynamic allocation cannot be used in
>>>  such an early stage.  static array?)
>>
>> Maybe a static array marked with __initdata?
>
> Also, I just thought that maybe it's possible to use a c99
> variable-length array here? Like this:
>
> int n = COMMAND_LINE_SIZE;
> char buf[n];
>
> This way, we don't put yet another variable in the .init.data section,
> unlike with the static array solution.
>
> However, this is totally untested, just a thought...

Just tried the variable-length array option, proves to be working:

dmvo@cipher:/tmp$ cat c.c
f()
{
        char buf[4096];
}
dmvo@cipher:/tmp$ cc -c -Wframe-larger-than=1024 c.c
c.c: In function ‘f’:
c.c:4: warning: the frame size of 4112 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes
dmvo@cipher:/tmp$ cat d.c
f()
{
        int n = 4096;
        char buf1[n];
}
dmvo@cipher:/tmp$ cc -c -Wframe-larger-than=1024 d.c

Dmitri