Messages in this thread |  | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11) | Date | Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:54:29 +0000 (GMT) |
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Darryl Miles writes: > Hmm, what about common symbol generation? i.e. the linker looses the > ability to throw out "multiply defined symbol" errors where you fail > to initialise it to a value.
We need to build with -fno-common to be 100% safe in this case. I'll run several compilations with this flag tomorrow.
> >We already argue about the extra couple of bytes that xx change to the > >kernel/a module would cost. With these change, we save kilo-bytes in > >disk space (which is important on some systems). > > PDAs!!! :) Excellent work Russell.
Note that this only affects the storage; the run-time size is exactly the same in both cases. I hope my comment above was clear about that. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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