Re: [PATCH] video: fbdev: radeon: make const array post_divs static, reduces object code size

[Colin Ian King]

On 12/10/17 17:17, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> 
> [ added dri-devel ML to cc: ]
> 
> On Tuesday, September 19, 2017 10:32:01 PM Colin King wrote:
>> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Don't populate the read-only const array post_divs on the stack,
>> nstead make it static. Makes the object code smaller by 90 bytes:
>>
>> Before:
>>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>>   40231	   8584	    896	  49711	   c22f	radeon_base.o
>>
>> After:
>>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>>   39914	   8744	    960	  49618	   c1d2	radeon_base.o
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Are these results obtained using the same compiler as the other patches
> (gcc version 7.2.0, x86_64)?

Yes, I forgot to annotate it.

Colin
> 
> Best regards,
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> Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
> Samsung R&D Institute Poland
> Samsung Electronics
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