Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 02 Dec 2001 08:07:35 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: PATCH 2.4.17.2: CONFIG_FINAL, make kernel smaller |
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Jeff Garzik wrote: > The conversion of linux/kernel was surprising... I only changed two > 'int' variables to KSTATIC. That implies to me that the majority of the > space savings might simply come from the better packing created when > compiling all the files into a single .o.
Note that this implies we can get some code size savings without marking all the functions KSTATIC... simply compiling them together gets a gain, although not one as big as is possible with all applicable functions marked.
Jeff
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