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To: "dan carpenter" <error27@email.com>
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Subject: Re: [LIST] large local declarations
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From: Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
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>>>>> "dan" == dan carpenter <error27@email.com> writes:

    dan> I have a smatch script (smatch.sf.net) that finds the the
    dan> size of local variables.  I created an allyesconfig with
    dan> 2.5.48 and tested it.  These were the functions that declared
    dan> local datas with size of 5 digits or more (in bits).

This is a minor complaint, but... why do you report the data sizes in
bits?  I find myself forced to mentally divide every size by 8.  Every
variable (obviously) has a size that's a whole number of bytes.  Why
not just report bytes?

Best,
  Roland
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