From: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [kernel/ subdirectory] constifications
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 20:16:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610092016.18362.deller@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160377169.3000.189.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
On Monday 09 October 2006 08:59, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 21:21 +0200, Helge Deller wrote:
> > - completely constify string arrays, thus move them to the rodata section
>
> note that gcc 4.1 and later will do this automatically for static things
> at least...
Are you sure ?
At least with gcc-4.1.0 from SUSE 10.1 the strings array _pointers_ are not moved into the rodata section without the second "const":
const static char * const x[] = { "value1", "value2" };
Helge
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-09 18:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-08 19:21 [PATCH] [kernel/ subdirectory] constifications Helge Deller
2006-10-09 6:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-09 18:16 ` Helge Deller [this message]
2006-10-09 18:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-09 20:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
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