Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Fri Feb 09 2007 - 07:04:27 EST
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> As long as nobody takes the address of them (which wouldn't compile today
> anyway) then the compiler should be able to not allocate store for these.
This would only work for unit-at-a-time compilers (if it works at all,
i'm not sure), but not older 3.x compilers
> That they're const might help too.
Don't think it does.
-Andi
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