Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] perf script: Add --max-symbol-bytes to bound ELF symbol memory

[Alireza Haghdoost]

> > @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ struct symbol {
> >       u64             start;
> >       u64             end;
> >       /** Length of the string name. */
> > -     u16             namelen;
> > +     u32             namelen;
>
> Why is this needed?  Do you have symbols with a really long name?
> Anyway, it should be a separate change then.
>

I will drop this change in the v3.  This is a theoretical edge case
and I don’t have a real workload
that hits it.