On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 08:02:27PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Converting inline __attribute__((format (printf,x,y) functions
> to macros or statement expressions produces smaller objects
>
> before:
> $ size vmlinux
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 4716770 474560 618496 5809826 58a6a2 vmlinux
> after:
> $ size vmlinux
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 4716706 474560 618496 5809762 58a662 vmlinux
> -static inline void __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)))
> -__simple_attr_check_format(const char *fmt, ...)
> -{
> - /* don't do anything, just let the compiler check the arguments; */
> -}
> +/* don't do anything, just let the compiler check the arguments; */
> +
> +#define __simple_attr_check_format(fmt, args...) \
> + do { if (0) printk(fmt, ##args); } while (0)
That's very interesting. It's only 64 bytes, but still, it's not
supposed to have any different effect. Could you distill a test case
for the GCC folks and file it in their bugzilla?
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