Joe Perches wrote:
On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 16:01 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
You could trim linebuf[] to 80 chars or so.  Extra points for making it
very clear when someone tries to exceed that - strcpy(linebuf, "stop being
stupid").

Maybe just eliminate the 16 or 32 byte width option and
force it to only 16 byte widths.

That'd keep it down to ~ 100 bytes nicely.

Prefix + address + dump + ascii: 20 + 18 + 48 + 10.

Have you checked users (callers)?  I'm pretty sure that one of the
callers wanted 32 and that's why it's there.


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