Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Aug 2003 12:06:59 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] revert to static = {0} |
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On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> If it's const, it shouldn't be linked into anything at all... right?
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:51:41PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote: > Sorry, Jeff, I don't get your point.
I suspect this assumes const values will get constant folded, which I'm not sure is the case, though it certainly sounds legal and worthwhile for a compiler to do when reasonable (i.e. for small structures and/or extractions of small fields of const structures).
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