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From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org>
Cc: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: beware of dead string constants
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 07:13:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001121071327.R1514@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14874.25691.629724.306563@wire.cadcamlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <14874.25691.629724.306563@wire.cadcamlab.org>; from peter@cadcamlab.org on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:02:35AM -0600

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:02:35AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> While trying to clean up some code recently (CONFIG_MCA, hi Jeff), I
> discovered that gcc 2.95.2 (i386) does not remove dead string
> constants:
> 
>   void foo (void)
>   {
>     if (0)
>       printk(KERN_INFO "bar");
>   }
> 
> Annoyingly, gcc forgets to drop the "<6>bar\0".  It shows up in the
> object file, needlessly clogging your cachelines.

gcc was never dropping such strings, I've commited a patch to fix this
a week ago into CVS.

	Jakub
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-21 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-21 12:02 beware of dead string constants Peter Samuelson
2000-11-21 12:13 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2000-11-21 12:24   ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-21 20:51   ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-22  1:14     ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-22  8:27       ` Urban Widmark
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-22 18:48 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2000-11-23 13:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-23 23:29 Bernd Eckenfels
2000-11-23 23:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2000-11-24  3:36   ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-24  4:15   ` Chris Wedgwood
2000-11-26 14:29 Bernd Eckenfels

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