Hi!
> Hello everybody,
>
> looking through the sources I found several pieces like
> lib/vsprintf.c, line 111:
> const char *digits="0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
>
> As tested with egcs-2.91.60 even with -O3 there is a difference
> between
> const char *digits="0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
> and
> const char digits[]="0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
>
> in the resulting assembler code.
>
>
> Usage of this pointer results in it being loaded in a register, and then
> pushed on the stack (for subrouting using); if it's an array, the address
> is pushed directly.
>
> Furthermore, in the "char *"-case the pointer is stored in memory.
It has to be, no matter of optimalization level. Some other module
might access that variable. You _could_ do static const char *..., but
it would probably not help.
> As I'm not at home I can't give a complete reference of all these cases.
> (But it's trivial [at least for me :-)] using perl).
>
> So if this changes are approved and I have the time I can post a diff in
> the next few days.
>
>
> BTW: For which size of patch is it possible to get included in the "Hall of
> fame" (has helped with linux kernel)?
Try something bigger than this :-).
> And, btw too, where can I find a maintainer of a specific file? eg., one of
> these cases is in init/version.c which has "Copyright (C) 1992 Theodore
> Ts'o" - but I have to guess it's tytso@valinux.com.
> Is there something like Documentation/maintainers?
It is something like MAINTAINERS in root.
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