On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 12:28:05AM +0900, Atsushi Nemoto wrote: > 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. Why does mips have this need when all other archs does not? We should fix sparse so it is dynamically allocated - but that is not an excuse for mips to use odd stuff like this. So please someone from mips land explain why this is needed. Sam
