[PATCH] static const ints are evil

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 09 March 2006 1:16 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Why? Because the are emitted into rodata segment, thats why!
>
> Below patch converts most of them into enum constants.
> End result:
>
> # size busybox.org busybox.const
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  790676   10820 1028484 1829980  1bec5c busybox.org
>  789580   10820 1028484 1828884  1be814 busybox.const
>
> Patch is bzipped in order to fit into 40kb mailing list limit.
> Also available at http://195.66.192.167/linux/bbox/const.patch
> --
> vda

The dump you appended at the start of the patch is no only egregiously long 
(and thus makes it hard to read the actual patch), but when you try to apply 
it it triggers a suprious patch for a file it can't find.

Try applying it.

Rob
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