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Re: [PATCH] Reduce size footprint of empty strings.
- From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim at codesourcery dot com>, gcc-patches <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:37:40 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reduce size footprint of empty strings.
- References: <4B8656D9.8050303@codesourcery.com> <4B86A668.6050502@redhat.com>
On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 09:33 -0700, Jeff Law wrote:
> I guess this officially ends the practice of allowing one to edit (via
> adb or emacs) the binary's data section to provide a different
> initializer for these objects. It was something I used to do with
> regularity "way back when". I'm not objecting, just pointing out that
> something that used to work isn't going to anymore.
You only need one non-null byte in the object and the whole thing will
still go in the data segment. This change only applies to strings that
are entirely zero-initialized.
R.