Re: [RFC] Use target filename in BUG_ON and friends

[Andi Kleen]

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? 

-Andi

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