linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda/ca0132: make some const arrays static, makes object smaller

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Date:   Sat, 17 Oct 2020 10:05:34 +0200
From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:     Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>,
        Connor McAdams <conmanx360@...il.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: hda/ca0132: make some const arrays static, makes object smaller

On Sat, 17 Oct 2020 00:49:13 +0200,
Colin King wrote:
> 
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> Don't populate const arrays on the stack but instead make them
> static. Makes the object code smaller by 57 bytes.
> 
> Before:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>  173256	  38016	    192	 211464	  33a08	sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.o
> 
> After:
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
>  172879	  38336	    192	 211407	  339cf	sound/pci/hda/patch_ca0132.o
> 
> (gcc version 10.2.0)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>

Thanks, applied.


Takashi