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Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 22:28:47 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
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To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] x86: Move instruction decoder data into header
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On 04/14/2014 09:41 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2014/04/15 2:44), Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > Right now we generate data for the instruction decoder and place it
>> > as a code file which gets #included directly (yuck).
>> > 
>> > Instead, make it a header which will also be usable by other code
>> > that wants to use the data in there.
> Hmm, making the generated data into a header file may clone
> the data table instances for each object file. Since the inat
> table is not so small, I think we'd better just export the tables.

The tables are defined as static, so the compiler drops them
once it detects they are not used.

I feel it would be easier to let the compiler do it's job rather
than do optimizations we don't need to do and which will complicate
the code quite a bit.


Thanks,
Sasha
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