Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946394AbXBIMEJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 07:04:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946402AbXBIMEJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 07:04:09 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:52783 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946394AbXBIMEG (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 07:04:06 -0500 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Frederik Deweerdt , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 References: <20070208150710.1324f6b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070209105737.GF5785@slug> <1171020273.8675.150.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20070209033936.41be141b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 09 Feb 2007 14:04:02 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20070209033936.41be141b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 632 Lines: 13 Andrew Morton writes: > > As long as nobody takes the address of them (which wouldn't compile today > anyway) then the compiler should be able to not allocate store for these. This would only work for unit-at-a-time compilers (if it works at all, i'm not sure), but not older 3.x compilers > That they're const might help too. Don't think it does. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/