[BusyBox] [PATCH] size optimisation for fdformat.c

Glenn McGrath bug1 at iinet.net.au
Wed Jan 21 08:11:06 UTC 2004


On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:34:31 -0800
Larry Doolittle <ldoolitt at recycle.lbl.gov> wrote:

> The overhead to be concerned with is the code to pass one more
> parameter in each place the function is used.  Since there are
> so many such calls, as you point out, that can add up to quite
> a few bytes.  Unfortunately, that size is platform-dependent,
> so there may not be a unique global optimum.

Thats why i think a single global variable would be best.

I know its best to avoid global variables but as this would be used a
lot i think its ok.



Glenn



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