cvs commit: src/sbin/init init.c

[Xin LI]

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Kostik Belousov wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:55:42PM -0700, Xin LI wrote:
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>> Kostik Belousov wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 12:09:10AM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
>>>> delphij     2008-09-27 00:09:10 UTC
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>>>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>>>
>>>>   Modified files:
>>>>     sbin/init            init.c 
>>>>   Log:
>>>>   SVN rev 183391 on 2008-09-27 00:09:10Z by delphij
>>>>   
>>>>   Static-ify procedures in init(8).
>>>>   
>>>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>>>   1.66      +79 -79    src/sbin/init/init.c
>>> What is a reason for the change ?
>> This would reduce the size of generated binary...
> 
> I am quite curious. Could you, please, show the numbers.
> Is the reduction in size is due to function inlining, or it is purely
> symbol table size issue ?

Oh it's not purely symbol table size, making these stuff static would
reduce instructions by 100+ for this case.  If we strip all symbols out
then we still have a 2KB saving by doing this.
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