Re: [patch] 2.3.99-pre3-3: dev_alloc_name

From: Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 09:25:15 EST


On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Andrew Morton wrote:

> However I'm not sure this is a good idea - it will prevent quite a bit
> of (usually desirable) string sharing. One embedded systems the .data
> section would have to be copied out to RAM at boot, so
> -fwritable-strings will use more RAM.

We only have to do the one file (Space.c).

Tim.
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