From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtpauth10.mail.atl.earthlink.net (smtpauth10.mail.atl.earthlink.net [209.86.89.70]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9266876B for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2005 02:30:14 +1100 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20051118074237.GA14865@suse.de> References: <20051117210902.GB31775@suse.de> <437D0A21.4090803@smiths-aerospace.com> <20051118074237.GA14865@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <322e5a1c14e0e7a08d88868f23ec7c73@penguinppc.org> From: Hollis Blanchard Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:30:03 -0600 To: Olaf Hering Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc boot: replace string labels with numbers List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Nov 18, 2005, at 1:42 AM, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Thu, Nov 17, Jerry Van Baren wrote: > >> While I'm being dumb, I gotta ask, how big is zImage and why does 117 >> bytes make a difference? > > Because we can. > >> My 2c: if you are going to use inscrutable labels (1,2,3,4), please >> put >> comments in. At least the previous labels gave hints as to what was >> happening. > > The code should be obvious. I hope the above was a joke, Olaf. I too am wondering where the savings come from. Regardless, IMHO 117 bytes is not a worthwhile tradeoff for less maintainable assembly. BTW, Jerry, the size of the instructions themselves will not change. I suspect the savings is from things like the symbol table, but I can't replicate it with a simple "hello world" testcase. -Hollis