Re: [PATCH] Use sed instead of perl to generate x86/kernel/cpu/capflags.c.

["Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 02:58:27PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
>
>From: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>
>
>Replace perl header file generator with smaller/faster/simpler C version.
>
>Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>

Pretty nice!

One small problem below.

>
>I ran the attached test script to compare the output of the C program
>with the output of the perl version for every HZ from 1 to 5000 to make
>sure it was producing the same constants.
>


I think you can use diff to compare the perl output and C output,
with different HZ values.


>+	fprintf(file, "#endif /* __KERNEL_TIMECONST_H */\n");
>+
>+	/* Notice if the disk fills up. */
>+
>+	fflush(stdout);
>+	return ferror(stdout);


Why do you fflush stdout while you are writing to 'file'?

Thanks.