Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 05 Aug 2003 17:13:00 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] revert to static = {0} |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote: > 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).
Correct. In fact, some Linux kernel code _assumes_ the compiler will fold constants...
Jeff
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