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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
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To: Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org>
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Subject: Re: [LIST] large local declarations
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On 21 Nov 2002, Roland Dreier wrote:

| >>>>> "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?

I second that.
It's not just Roland...

But thanks for doing it anyway.

-- 
~Randy

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