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

[Julia Lawall]

On Fri, 22 Sep 2017, Colin Ian King wrote:

> On 22/09/17 11:03, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-09-22 at 09:23 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 21 Sep 2017, 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.  Makes the object code smaller
> >>> by over 800 bytes:
> >>>
> >>>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >>>  159029	  33154	   1216	 193399	  2f377	4965-mac.o
> >>>
> >>>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
> >>>  158122	  33250	   1216	 192588	  2f04c	4965-mac.o
> >>>
> >>> (gcc version 7.2.0 x86_64)
> >>
> >> Gcc 7 must be much more aggressive about inlining than gcc 4.  Here is the
> >> change that I got on this file:
> >>
> >>      text          data     bss     dec     hex filename
> >> -   76346          1494     152   77992   130a8 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/4965-mac.o
> >> +   76298          1494     152   77944   13078 drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlegacy/4965-mac.o
> >> decrease of 48
> >
> > More likely different CONFIG options.
> >
> > e.g. allyesconfig vs defconfig with wireless
> >
> yup, I used allyesconfig

Mine is also allyesconfig.

julia

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