[PATCH 2/6] 2.4.19-rc1 number() stack reduction

[Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx>
--- linux-2.4.29-rc1.org/lib/vsprintf.c	2004-02-18 05:36:32.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.4.29-rc1/lib/vsprintf.c	2005-01-07 07:56:00.000000000 -0800
@@ -128,12 +128,16 @@ static int skip_atoi(const char **s)
 #define SPECIAL	32		/* 0x */
 #define LARGE	64		/* use 'ABCDEF' instead of 'abcdef' */
 
+ /* Move these off of the stack for number().  This way we reduce the
+  * size of the stack and don't have to copy them every time we are called.
+  */
+const char small_digits[] = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
+const char large_digits[] = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
+
 static char * number(char * buf, char * end, long long num, int base, int size, int precision, int type)
 {
 	char c,sign,tmp[66];
 	const char *digits;
-	static const char small_digits[] = "0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
-	static const char large_digits[] = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ";
 	int i;
 
 	digits = (type & LARGE) ? large_digits : small_digits;