Re: [PATCH] no need to align .modinfo strings

[Jan Beulich]

>>> On 06.09.10 at 10:19, Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 09:54:40 pm Jan Beulich wrote:
>> Their use is not performance critical, and hence it seems better to
>> save some space.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> The real question is: why is gcc aligning these?  Should it be aligning

A performance consideration for those cases where strings are being
used a lot, I believe.

> any string literals at all?  If so, should we look for other such wastes
> of space?

I think we should, at least I'm keeping an eye open to spot any such.

Jan

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