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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709151143230.13411@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:43:40 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
cc:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add consts where appropriate in sound/pci/hda/*


On Sep 14 2007 18:48, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>Hi Takashi,
>
>There is a lot of data structures in that code,
>and most of them seems to be read-only.
>
>I added const modifiers to most of such places:
>
>   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?


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