On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 01:42:50PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > one thing that will be good is that this version of gcc automatically > detects that variables are never written to, and puts then in a special > ELF section; the result is that shared libs and binaries share that > memory between them instead of one for each app, and the total memory > usage of fedora will go down a bit as a result! Errr.. sorry, but what are shared variables that no one ever writes to exactly good for? -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list