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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] Drop exported symbols list if !modules
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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.
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