Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Jul 2006 19:58:15 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Use target filename in BUG_ON and friends |
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On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 02:03:07AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Saturday 08 July 2006 22:57, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 11:45:49AM -0500, Milton Miller wrote: > > > > > > On Jul 8, 2006, at 04:45:54 EST, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > When building the kernel using make O=.. all uses of __FILE__ becomes > > > > filenames with absolute path resulting in increased text size. > > > > Following patch supply the target filename as a commandline define > > > > KBUILD_TARGET_FILE="mmslab.o" > > > > > > Unfortunately this ignores the fact that __LINE__ is meaningless > > > without __FILE__ because there are way too many BUGs in header > > > files. > > > > __LINE__ gives a very precise hint of the offending .h file. > > For x86_64 there are only one line-number clash in include/ for uses of > > __FILE__. > > > It's a nasty encoding. Maybe you could add a script to resolve them? The patch was dropped. The benefit was too small compared to less readable bug's.
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