On Thu, 2021-08-19 at 15:51 +0100, Colin Ian King wrote: > it still makes sense for these kind of > janitorial changes as it makes sense to constify arrays when they are > read-only and making them static is sensible for const data. I'm not disagreeing. Marking unmodifiable arrays as const is generally useful for readers. Decent compilers though can _mostly_ determine whether or not an array is used as const and whether the array can be placed in a readonly section and is not required to be in a writable one. But the object sizes deltas you show with an allmodconfig are misleading. At a minimum I think you should show the output sizes as allmodconfig.