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Date:      Tue, 14 May 2002 21:19:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot2 boot2.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020514211932.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020515065310.A64295@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

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On 14-May-2002 Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2002-May-11 14:49:39 -0700, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
>>  Save about 60 bytes by #define memcpy __builtin_memcpy and removing
>>  the function we provided.  Restore the Keyboard: yes/no  printf for the
>>  probe diagnostics.  We end up with 40 bytes free.
> 
> More potential savings:
> - Change dev_nm definition to "const char dev_nm[4][] = ..." saves 7 bytes.
>   This amounts to saving 20 bytes of pointers, but the code bloats by
>   13 bytes because of reversion from register-indirect to direct addressing
>   of dev_nm in several places.  (Using [3] instead of [4] actually makes
>   things worse because *3 isn't possible in the R/I/M byte).
> - Change dev_maj defn to "const unsigned char dev_maj[]" saves 15 bytes.

These and other changes suggested sound good to me.  No objections from me if
you commit them.

> Peter

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