Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

[Andi Kleen]

Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> As long as nobody takes the address of them (which wouldn't compile today
> anyway) then the compiler should be able to not allocate store for these. 

This would only work for unit-at-a-time compilers (if it works at all,
i'm not sure), but not older 3.x compilers

> That they're const might help too.

Don't think it does.

-Andi
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