On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 05:00:18PM +0200, Manuel Schölling wrote:
> Initializations like 'char *foo = "bar"' will create two variables: a static
> string and a pointer (foo) to that static string. Instead 'char foo[] = "bar"'
> will declare a single variable and will end up in shorter
> assembly (according to Jeff Garzik on the KernelJanitor's TODO list).
>
This is a greatly oversimplifying things, this may or may not happen.
Out of curiosity I checked my kernel on x86-64 and it has this
optimized:
0xffffffffa00a9629 <bm_entry_read+121>: movabs $0x203a7367616c66,%rcx
crash> ascii 0x203a7367616c66
00203a7367616c66: flags: <NUL>
> fs/binfmt_misc.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/binfmt_misc.c b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
> index b605003..2a10529 100644
> --- a/fs/binfmt_misc.c
> +++ b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
> @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ static void entry_status(Node *e, char *page)
> {
> char *dp;
> char *status = "disabled";
> - const char * flags = "flags: ";
> + const char flags[] = "flags: ";
>
> if (test_bit(Enabled, &e->flags))
> status = "enabled";
This particular function would be better of with removing this variable
and replacing all pairs like:
sprintf(dp, ...);
dp += strlen(...)
with:
dp += sprintf(dp, ...);
--
Mateusz Guzik
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