[libvirt PATCH] meson: remove obsolete comment about stack frame size

Daniel P. Berrangé berrange at redhat.com
Thu Apr 8 13:00:16 UTC 2021


The virStrerror function no longer exists in libvirt so is not a
constraint. At the current stack limit of 4k, and default Linux
stack size of 8 MB, we have a recursion limit of 2048 in the
absolute worst case, and much higher in common case. Even with
smaller stack sizes, we're going to be fine as we don't deeply
recurse in code.

Thus it is not worth spending effort to optimize below our current
4k worst case limit. Removing the comment will stop encouraging
people to spend time on this in future.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange at redhat.com>
---
 meson.build | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 97d9c52165..a521d148d5 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -409,9 +409,6 @@ cc_flags += [
   # but need to rewrite various areas of code first
   '-Wno-format-truncation',
 
-  # This should be < 256 really. Currently we're down to 4096,
-  # but using 1024 bytes sized buffers (mostly for virStrerror)
-  # stops us from going down further
   '-Wframe-larger-than=4096',
 
   # extra special flags
-- 
2.30.2




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