[sane-devel] Re: dell1600n_net.c in sane-backends-1.0.18

[Jon Chambers]

Hi Scott,

Oops!  Well spotted: I will amend this for the next release!

By the way, do you have a Dell 1600n and if so does the driver work ok for 
you (aside from its monstrous size!)?

cheers,
Jon

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On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Scott S. Bertilson wrote:

>  At line 1765 the code allocate a char array:
> 	char tempFilename[TMP_MAX] = "scan.dat";
> I just tried to build it on FreeBSD-6.1 and noticed that
> while installing it took a _very_ long time to strip
> the shared object for dell1600n_net.  Out of curiousity,
> I looked at the size of the shared object and found that
> it was about 300 MB (yes, megabytes).  After poking around,
> I narrowed it down to the line referenced above.  After
> a little more looking around, I found out that
> 	TMP_MAX
> is the maximum number of unique _names_ generated by
> the algorithm used whereas "L_tmpnam" is the symbol
> defined to specify the maximum _length_ of the string
> generated.  This is documented on both FreeBSD-6.1
> and Gentoo Linux.  I get a very reasonable 24.5 KB
> object file after changing this.
>  I'm guessing that there must be something interesting
> about the gcc-3.4.4 compiler on my FreeBSD-6.1 machine
> because I don't get a preposterously large object file
> on Gentoo with gcc-3.3.6.
> 				Regards, Scott
>