Manuel Schölling <manuel.schoelling@...> writes: > > Initializations like 'char *foo = "bar"' will create two variables: a static > string and a pointer (foo) to that static string. Instead 'char foo[] = "bar"' > will declare a single variable and will end up in shorter > assembly (according to Jeff Garzik on the KernelJanitor's TODO list). >
For globals this might be the case, but for function locals this is actually more code since the string now needs to be copied to the stack. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
