Hi, I am trying to implement the ability to compile a string buffer rather than a file. So I have created something similar to sparse_file() but it takes a buffer instead. First issue was that sparse assumes that the argv array has at least one element. Otherwise there is a segmentation fault. Secondly if the file list is empty then the sparse initialization step doesn't occur - so I have disabled the check for empty file list for this use case. Anyway the issue is that the linearized instructions are coming out with 0 size. I was wondering if there is a quick way to locate what is going wrong. The same C snippet when put into a file is handled fine. Thanks and Regards Dibyendu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html