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

Kalle Valo
2017-09-22T10:32:42Z

Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> writes:

> 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.

Yeah, I'll fix that when I commit this. But very good that you pointed
it out, I might miss stuff like this.

I'll also remove the "wireless:" prefix from the title.

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Kalle Valo