Re: [patch 2/2] kernel/power/disk.c string fix and if-less iterator

[Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>]

On 21/06/05 00:10 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > The attached patch:
> > 
> > o  Fixes kernel/power/disk.c string declared as 'char *p = "...";' to be
> >    declared as 'char p[] = "...";', as pointed by Jeff Garzik.
> 
> ? Why was char *p ... wrong? Because you could not do sizeof() later?

It usualy generates shorter binary, because there's no pointer variable.
Doesn't seem so in this case:
	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
before:	   2333     389       8    2730     aaa kernel/power/disk.o
after:	   2349     389       8    2746     aba kernel/power/disk.o

static const char[] makes it same, so no real gain there either :-(

Sorry for the noise.


	Domen
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