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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: beware of dead string constants
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 21:51:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20001121215145.C748@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14874.25691.629724.306563@wire.cadcamlab.org> <20001121071327.R1514@devserv.devel.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001121071327.R1514@devserv.devel.redhat.com>; from jakub@redhat.com on Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 13:13:27 +0100


On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:13:27 Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> 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");
> >   }
> > 

Is it related to opt level ? -O3 does auto-inlining and -O2 does not
(discovered that here, auto inlining in kernel trashes the cache...)

-- 
Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta                                 #> cd /pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                     #> more beer

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2000-11-21 21:22 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
2000-11-21 12:24   ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-21 20:51   ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
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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