Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Apr 2014 13:44:48 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/1] OCFS2: Remove NULL assignments on static |
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On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:53:14 +0800 Wengang <wen.gang.wang@oracle.com> wrote:
> ___ 2014___04___09___ 04:13, Fabian Frederick ______: > > static values are automatically initialized to NULL. > > > > What's the badness if we do the assignments?
(top-posting repaired...)
Back in the olden days,
static int x = 0;
would consume space in the .data segment and
static int x;
would consume space in the .bss segment.
The .data segment is a part of vmlinux (because it contains non-zero data) whereas .bss does not occupy space in vmlinux because .bss is all-zero and can be built at runtime
So the effect of this patch would be to reduce the size of the kernel image. Less disk space, less ROM space, etc.
I think more recent gcc's and linkers got smarter about that and move initialized-to-zero .data into .bss anyway.
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