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SubjectRe: beware of dead string constants
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:02:35AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> While trying to clean up some code recently (CONFIG_MCA, hi Jeff), I
> discovered that gcc 2.95.2 (i386) does not remove dead string
> constants:
>
> void foo (void)
> {
> if (0)
> printk(KERN_INFO "bar");
> }
>
> Annoyingly, gcc forgets to drop the "<6>bar\0". It shows up in the
> object file, needlessly clogging your cachelines.

gcc was never dropping such strings, I've commited a patch to fix this
a week ago into CVS.

Jakub
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