Re: [PATCH] tools/perf: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:45:01AM +0200, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado wrote:
> That is 4gb size :S..... I have tried making a dummy program
> 
> int tttttt......ttttt (int a, int b){
> return a+b;
> }
> 
> int main(int arg, char *[]argv){
>     return tttt....tttt(1,2);
> }
> 
> and it has worked at least until t^16384 both in gcc and in gdb, and I
> guess it would have continue working until much more.
> 
> Right now, I think we can increase it until 512, to be on the safe
> side, and keep it simple. What do you think?
> 

I've no idea how perf uses them, so I think I have no rights to
advise here ;) If this has no performance impact then sure, looks
good.

	Cyrill
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