Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Drop exported symbols list if !modules | From | Rusty Russell <> | Date | Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:48:14 +1000 |
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On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 09:30, Andrew Morton wrote: > Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: > > Please measure it. It's not obvious to me at all. > > Miniscule savings > > text data bss dec hex filename > 3221815 862456 0 4084271 3e522f vmlinux-before > 3221591 862456 0 4084047 3e514f vmlinux-after
Reproduced here: that's the .comment section getting a little larger.
This gets stripped in building arch/i386/boot/vmlinux.bin, and hence arch/i386/boot/bzImage.
So, the patch is just churn AFAICT.
Thanks, Rusty. -- Anyone who quotes me in their signature is an idiot -- Rusty Russell
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