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On Thu, 2017-09-21 at 23:56 +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Don't populate const array ac_to_fifo on the stack in an inlined
> function, instead make it static.  Makes the object code smaller
> by over 800 bytes:
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	
> filename
>  159029	  33154	   1216	 193399	  2f377	
> 4965-mac.o
> 
>    text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	
> filename
>  158122	  33250	   1216	 192588	  2f04c	
> 4965-mac.o
> 
> (gcc version 7.2.0 x86_64)

I'm curious - how did you find this?

johannes
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