On Tue, 2021-03-02 at 22:41 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
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> On Tue, 2 Mar 2021, Joe Perches wrote:
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> > Here is a possible opportunity to reduce data usage in the kernel.
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> Does it actually reduce data usage?
Yes, at least for gcc. For instance:
$ gcc --version
gcc (Ubuntu 10.2.0-13ubuntu1)
On Tue, 2 Mar 2021, Joe Perches wrote:
> Here is a possible opportunity to reduce data usage in the kernel.
Does it actually reduce data usage?
julia
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> $ git grep -P -n '^static\s+(?!const|struct)(?:\w+\s+){1,3}\w+\s*\[\s*\]'
> drivers/ | \
> grep -v __initdata | \
> wc -l
> 3250
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>
Here is a possible opportunity to reduce data usage in the kernel.
$ git grep -P -n '^static\s+(?!const|struct)(?:\w+\s+){1,3}\w+\s*\[\s*\]'
drivers/ | \
grep -v __initdata | \
wc -l
3250
Meaning there are ~3000 declarations of arrays with what appears to be
file static const content that ar
