Re: Large Stack Usage in One More Function

[Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 12:27, Andi Kleen wrote:
> gcc isn't very smart in that unfortunately. All local variables no matter if 
> in a subscope 
> or not or being dead for most of the function or not contribute the stack 
> frame.
> The only way to get a separate stack frame is to either use alloca() or a 
> different
> function.
> 
> -Andi

Thanks Andi, looks like breaking up the ioctl function would be the
best way to fix this then.

Steve

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