On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 10:30 -0500, Gustavo A. R. Silva wrote: > Remove unnecessary static on local variable ops. > Such variable is initialized before being used, > on every execution path throughout the function. > The static has no benefit and, removing it reduces > the code size. [] > In the following log you can see the difference in the code size. Also, > there is a significant difference in the bss segment. This log is the > output of the size command, before and after the code change: > > before: > text data bss dec hex filename > 3211 680 64 3955 f73 sound/soc/sh/rcar/ssiu.o > > after: > text data bss dec hex filename > 3207 592 0 3799 ed7 sound/soc/sh/rcar/ssiu.o [] > diff --git a/sound/soc/sh/rcar/ssiu.c b/sound/soc/sh/rcar/ssiu.c [] > @@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ int rsnd_ssiu_probe(struct rsnd_priv *priv) > { > struct device *dev = rsnd_priv_to_dev(priv); > struct rsnd_ssiu *ssiu; > - static struct rsnd_mod_ops *ops; > + struct rsnd_mod_ops *ops; > int i, nr, ret; > > /* same number to SSI */ I'm not an sh user anymore, but it's curious to me why the static removal has such a large impact on data size. Is this for an allyesconfig with debug symbols? btw: this does compile for x86 and those sizes seem more sensible. $ size sound/soc/sh/rcar/ssiu.o* text data bss dec hex filename 1950 248 0 2198 896 sound/soc/sh/rcar/ssiu.o.defconfig.new 1950 248 8 2206 89e sound/soc/sh/rcar/ssiu.o.defconfig.old 2692 248 0 2940 b7c sound/soc/sh/rcar/ssiu.o.allyesconfig.new 2692 248 8 2948 b84 sound/soc/sh/rcar/ssiu.o.allyesconfig.old _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel