Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 22:54:34 +0100 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Heads up: static -ification Message-ID: <5219.887061274@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 22:34:52 %2B0100." <19980209223452.41056@follo.net>
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>> > I'm just about to commit a change that staticize close to everything that >> > can be staticized and doesn't look unreasonable to staticize (almost 400 >> > variables and functions). >> >> Just out of curiosity, what's the rationale for this? Smaller stack >> footprint? Faster access to said variables? > >There are a multitude of reasons; I'll list some of them: I'd just like to say thanks to Eivind for this effort. People should make use of the script in src/tools/tools/kernxref.sh in the future, unless some other file needs a particular symbol, it should be made static. There is no excuse now! Thanks again Eivind! -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe current" in the body of the message
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