Re: [PATCH] wireless: iwlegacy: make const array static to shink object code size Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 23:56 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Don't populate const array ac_to_fifo on the stack in an inlined
> function, instead make it static.ÂÂMakes the object code smaller
> by over 800 bytes:
> 
> ÂÂÂtext	ÂÂÂdata	ÂÂÂÂbss	ÂÂÂÂdec	ÂÂÂÂhex	
> filename
> Â159029	ÂÂ33154	ÂÂÂ1216	Â193399	ÂÂ2f377	
> 4965-mac.o
> 
> ÂÂÂtext	ÂÂÂdata	ÂÂÂÂbss	ÂÂÂÂdec	ÂÂÂÂhex	
> filename
> Â158122	ÂÂ33250	ÂÂÂ1216	Â192588	ÂÂ2f04c	
> 4965-mac.o
> 
> (gcc version 7.2.0 x86_64)

I'm curious - how did you find this?

johannes