Re: [PATCH] wireless: iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Date: 2017-09-22 06:00:38
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- 2017-09-22 · Re: [PATCH] wireless: iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit · Julia Lawall <hidden>
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- 2017-09-22 · Re: [PATCH] wireless: iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit · Colin Ian King <hidden>
On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 23:56 +0100, Colin King wrote:
From: Colin Ian King <redacted> Don't populate const array ac_to_fifo on the stack in an inlined function, instead make it static. Makes the object code smaller by over 800 bytes: text data bss dec hex filename 159029 33154 1216 193399 2f377 4965-mac.o text data bss dec hex filename 158122 33250 1216 192588 2f04c 4965-mac.o (gcc version 7.2.0 x86_64)
I'm curious - how did you find this? johannes