From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Message-Id: <200011292354.eATNsUU04802@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)
To: darryl@netbauds.net (Darryl Miles)
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:54:29 +0000 (GMT)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
In-Reply-To: <3A252BE9.D9F7D040@netbauds.net> from "Darryl Miles" at Nov 29, 2000 04:16:41 PM
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Darryl Miles writes:
> Hmm, what about common symbol generation?  i.e. the linker looses the
> ability to throw out "multiply defined symbol" errors where you fail
> to initialise it to a value.

We need to build with -fno-common to be 100% safe in this case.  I'll
run several compilations with this flag tomorrow.

> >We already argue about the extra couple of bytes that xx change to the
> >kernel/a module would cost.  With these change, we save kilo-bytes in
> >disk space (which is important on some systems).
>  
> PDAs!!! :)  Excellent work Russell.

Note that this only affects the storage; the run-time size is exactly
the same in both cases.  I hope my comment above was clear about that.
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