On Sat, 21 Jun 2003, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> The MAXNEST constant in sparse is currently too small for
> checking most of the kernel files.
Thanks, right you are. I fixed it a bit differently, in particular it
doesn't need an "int", it really needs just one bit per level, but I left
it at "char" instead.
> The deepest nesting
> I found in the kernel is 25, so MAXNEST=32 should probably
> be sufficient. It would be nice to check overruns here,
> but I did not know where to best do it.
I did that too (and I made the size of the nesting be 256, since changing
it to a char means that it's fairly small).
Linus
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