ipv4/tcp.c:4234:1: error: the frame size of 1152 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2021, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The do_tcp_getsockopt() one in tpc.c is a classic case of "lots of
> different case statements, many of them with their own struct
> allocations on stack, and all of them disjoint".

Any compiler developers here? AFAIK the compiler knows the lifetime
of function-local variables, so why not alias the actual memory
locations and ranges to minimise stack usage?

bye,
//mirabilos
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