Re: [PATCH] wireless: iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Stanislaw Gruszka
2017-09-22T09:56:14Z

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 11:56:30PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
>
> 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)
>
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

Content type information was added at the end of the topic, but
I think Kalle can fix that when he will be committing the patch.

Acked-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>