On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 1:26 AM, Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 10:49 -0800, Joe Perches wrote: >> On Thu, 2014-11-27 at 12:25 +0000, David Laight wrote: >> > Why the change in data? >> >> btw: without gcov and using -O2 >> >> $ size arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.o* >> text data bss dec hex filename >> 9671 4 0 9675 25cb arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.o.new >> 10679 4 0 10683 29bb arch/x86/net/bpf_jit_comp.o.old > > Alexei? > > Is this 10% reduction in size a good reason to change the code?
yes. I believe you're seeing it with gcc 4.9. I wanted to double check what 4.6 and 4.7 are doing. If they're not suddenly increase code size then resubmit it for inclusion please. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
