Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Sat Sep 15 2007 - 06:36:33 EST



On Sep 15 2007 12:18, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> > text data bss dec hex filename
>> > 106315 179564 36 285915 45cdb snd-hda-intel.o
>> > 283051 2624 36 285711 45c0f snd-hda-intel_patched.o
>>
>> This is kinda odd. Why did the _text_ size increase by constifying?
>
>The data got converted from data to text because they were made const.

Which is odd. How can data become code? Or does 'text' actually
include .rodata?

>Making stuff const unfortunately does not make them disappear
>albeit the embedded folks would have liked that.
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