On 2018-04-05 15:51, Joe Perches wrote: >> You have to factor in >> not just the .text size, but the fact that referencing an exported >> symbol needs a .reloc entry as well, which also eats up some space (at >> least when the code is being built as module). > > Thanks, the modules I built got smaller. Please post some numbers to show this. By the way, on other architectures the numbers will probably be different, especially on ARM/MIPS. >> In my opinion, your series probably causes more bloat in common >> configurations instead of reducing it. >> >> You're also touching several places that could easily use >> eth_broadcast_addr and eth_zero_addr. I think making those changes would >> be more productive than what you did in this series. > > Doubtful. AFAIK: possible unaligned addresses. Those two are just memset calls, alignment does not matter. - Felix
