[PATCH] video: fbdev: sis: make const array specialtv static, reduces object code size

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz b.zolnierkie at samsung.com
Thu Oct 12 15:30:49 UTC 2017


On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 04:41:37 PM Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>
> 
> Don't populate the const array specialtv on the stack, instead make it
> static.  Makes the object code smaller by over 1100 bytes:
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>  179899	   7504	      0	 187403	  2dc0b	drivers/video/fbdev/sis/init301.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>  178720	   7568	      0	 186288	  2d7b0	drivers/video/fbdev/sis/init301.o
> 
> (gcc version 7.2.0, x86_64)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>

Patch queued for 4.15, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics



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