linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*

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Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 12:29:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
cc:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*


On Sep 15 2007 12:18, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>> >   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>> > 106315  179564      36  285915   45cdb snd-hda-intel.o
>> > 283051    2624      36  285711   45c0f snd-hda-intel_patched.o
>> 
>> This is kinda odd. Why did the _text_ size increase by constifying?
>
>The data got converted from data to text because they were made const.

Which is odd. How can data become code? Or does 'text' actually
include .rodata?

>Making stuff const unfortunately does not make them disappear
>albeit the embedded folks would have liked that.
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