On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 12:52 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Joe Perches [off-list ref] wrote:

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At least some objects are smaller with static.
$ size net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.o.*
  text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   324     236      48     608     260 net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.o.withstatic
   344     236      48     628     274 net/appletalk/sysctl_net_atalk.o.withoutstatic

I got the opposite result for the size of the whole kernel image with
allyesconfig.
original: 33531456
patched: 33531424
It seems random.

Not using static requires the compiler to emit
initialization code for any use of the routine
that otherwise would only be done once.