I got this error when running sparse on mips kernel with gcc 4.3: builtin:272:1: warning: Newline in string or character constant The linus-mips kernel uses '$(CC) -dM -E' to generates arguments for sparse. With gcc 4.3, it generates lot of '-D' options and causes pre_buffer overflow. This patch increase pre_buffer[] size and add extra checking for overflow instead of silently truncating. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/lib.c b/lib.c index 0abcc9a..b8b2d57 100644 --- a/lib.c +++ b/lib.c @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ void die(const char *fmt, ...) } static unsigned int pre_buffer_size; -static char pre_buffer[8192]; +static char pre_buffer[16384]; int Waddress_space = 1; int Wbitwise = 0; @@ -238,6 +238,8 @@ void add_pre_buffer(const char *fmt, ...) fmt, args); pre_buffer_size = size; va_end(args); + if (pre_buffer_size >= sizeof(pre_buffer) - 1) + die("pre_buffer overflow"); } static char **handle_switch_D(char *arg, char **next)