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Subject: Re: Linux v2.5.46
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Especially since we expect the array to be potentially megabytes in the 
> end (especially if somebody wants to make a bootable CD using this), and 
> at least traditional gcc's would do horrible O(n^2) things with big 
> initialized arrays. 

Newer gcc is much saner, but there are other ways to do it - gas is
quite happy to chew a 10Mb .byte file 8)

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