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Re: section placement q

To: Andrew Morton <andrewm at uow dot edu dot au>
Subject: Re: section placement q
From: Artur Skawina <skawina at geocities dot com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 00:57:09 +0200
CC: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <391B5AF7.C26E47E4@uow.edu.au> <200005120200.TAA04305@penguin.transmeta.com> <391E300E.CFF4EFE5@uow.edu.au> <392C83BF.461423A9@geocities.com> <392C8C7F.E5A0B73A@uow.edu.au> <392D3111.18CF891@geocities.com> <392D35D0.D7A280A5@uow.edu.au>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> >  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Heights/6494/sw/patch-initstr.gz
> 
> Wow.  Did that save ~30k? 

I don't remember the actual numbers anymore (iirc for UP kernels
the saving was ~12k, for SMP ones it was significantly more).
Something that the compiler could help with is string alignment
-- aligning to 32 bytes etc is not really necessary for those
strings...

References:
- section placement q
  - From: Andrew Morton
- Re: section placement q
  - From: Linus Torvalds
- Re: section placement q
  - From: Andrew Morton
- Re: section placement q
  - From: Artur Skawina
- Re: section placement q
  - From: Andrew Morton
- Re: section placement q
  - From: Artur Skawina
- Re: section placement q
  - From: Andrew Morton

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