Re: [LIST] large local declarations

Roland Dreier (roland@digitalvampire.org)
21 Nov 2002 22:25:06 -0800


>>>>> "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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