From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262395AbVFUWah (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:30:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262393AbVFUWaJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:30:09 -0400 Received: from imf19aec.mail.bellsouth.net ([205.152.59.67]:28081 "EHLO imf19aec.mail.bellsouth.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262565AbVFUVlT (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 17:41:19 -0400 Message-ID: <008401c576b1$4f2ec000$2800000a@pc365dualp2> From: To: "Jean Delvare" , "Denis Vlasenko" Cc: "LKML" References: <200506211359.25632.vda@ilport.com.ua> <20050621232409.06a3400e.khali@linux-fr.org> Subject: Re: [RFC] cleanup patches for strings Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 18:33:39 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1478 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jean, the default string alignments GCC seems to insist on using are going to screw you far more than the extra byte here or there ;-> I've measured close to 100K+ of fluff 0x00 pad bytes in a 2.6 kernel that are due to GCC. FWIW, a while ago I posted a small utility to measure this grotesque wastage. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean Delvare" To: "Denis Vlasenko" Cc: "LKML" Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 17:24 Subject: Re: [RFC] cleanup patches for strings > > I think so. I can't think of a more useless way to waste memory ;)