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
2017-09-22T10:07:00Z

On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Colin Ian King wrote:

> On 22/09/17 11:03, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 09:23 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, 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)
> >>
> >> Gcc 7 must be much more aggressive about inlining than gcc 4. Here is the
> >> change that I got on this file:
> >>
> >> text data bss dec hex filename
> >> - 76346 1494 152 77992 130a8 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/4965-mac.o
> >> + 76298 1494 152 77944 13078 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/4965-mac.o
> >> decrease of 48
> >
> > More likely different CONFIG options.
> >
> > e.g. allyesconfig vs defconfig with wireless
> >
> yup, I used allyesconfig

Mine is also allyesconfig.

julia

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