On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I'm not seeing any change in text size with allyesconfig after applying
> > this patch with latest git:
>
> This is just x86 defconfig
>
allyesconfig should be able to capture any text savings that this patch
offers.
> > Joe, what version of gcc are you using?
>
> $ gcc --version
> gcc (GCC) 4.2.2 20071128 (prerelease) (4.2.2-3.1mdv2008.0)
>
My x86_64 defconfig with gcc 4.0.3 had no difference in text size after
applying your patch, yet the same config on gcc 4.1.2 did:
text data bss dec hex filename
5386112 846328 719560 6952000 6a1440 vmlinux.before
5386048 846328 719560 6951936 6a1400 vmlinux.after
