Re: beware of dead string constants

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 06:02:35AM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> While trying to clean up some code recently (CONFIG_MCA, hi Jeff), I
> discovered that gcc 2.95.2 (i386) does not remove dead string
> constants:
> 
>   void foo (void)
>   {
>     if (0)
>       printk(KERN_INFO "bar");
>   }
> 
> Annoyingly, gcc forgets to drop the "<6>bar\0".  It shows up in the
> object file, needlessly clogging your cachelines.

gcc was never dropping such strings, I've commited a patch to fix this
a week ago into CVS.

	Jakub