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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] clk: moxart: remove unnecessary statics
On 07/04, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote:
> Remove unnecessary static on local variable _base_ in both functions
> moxart_of_pll_clk_init() and moxart_of_apb_clk_init(). Such variables
> are initialized before being used, on every execution path throughout
> the mentioned functions. The statics have no benefit and, removing
> them reduce the code size.
>
> This issue was detected using Coccinelle and the following semantic patch:
>
> @bad exists@
> position p;
> identifier x;
> type T;
> @@
>
> static T x@p;
> ...
> x = <+...x...+>
>
> @@
> identifier x;
> expression e;
> type T;
> position p != bad.p;
> @@
>
> -static
> T x@p;
> ... when != x
> when strict
> ?x = e;
>
> In the following log you can see the difference in the code size. Also,
> notice that the bss segment is reduced down to zero. This log is the
> output of the size command, before and after the code change:
>
> before:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 1724 384 128 2236 8bc drivers/clk/clk-moxart.o
>
> after:
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 1697 240 0 1937 791 drivers/clk/clk-moxart.o
>
> Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <garsilva@embeddedor.com>
> ---

Applied to clk-next

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