[PATCH 2/6] 2.4.19-rc1 number() stack reduction

From: Badari Pulavarty
Date: Mon Jan 10 2005 - 14:40:42 EST



Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- linux-2.4.29-rc1.org/lib/vsprintf.c 2004-02-18 05:36:32.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.4.29-rc1/lib/vsprintf.c 2005-01-07 07:56:00.000000000 -0800
@@ -128,12 +128,16 @@ static int skip_atoi(const char **s)
#define SPECIAL 32 /* 0x */
#define LARGE 64 /* use 'ABCDEF' instead of 'abcdef' */

+ /* Move these off of the stack for number(). This way we reduce the
+ * size of the stack and don't have to copy them every time we are called.
+ */
+const char small_digits[] = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
+const char large_digits[] = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
+
static char * number(char * buf, char * end, long long num, int base, int size, int precision, int type)
{
char c,sign,tmp[66];
const char *digits;
- static const char small_digits[] = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
- static const char large_digits[] = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
int i;

digits = (type & LARGE) ? large_digits : small_digits;