Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Peter Memishian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  > I think this is more in the range of megabytes since the kernel is full
> >  > of duplicate strings.
> >
> > The waste is certainly noticeable on DEBUG kernels.  In fact, there's
> > currently a P1 bug (6522961) open that DEBUG kernels are overflowing the
> > 4M nucleus text page because of all the duplicate text strings in ASSERT()
> > messages (especially __FILE__).  Roland, you will be happy to hear that
> > one of the proposals on the table is to enable -xstrconst for the kernel.
> 
> I am not sure whether the compiler will ever be able to avoid duplicate
> strings that result from strinmgs in different source files.

That's why I suggested a new compiler/linker option to fold identical
read-only objects together (AFAIK a violation of the ISO C standard but
it may still be usefull).

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Bye,
Roland

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