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Date:      Mon, 09 Feb 1998 22:54:34 +0100
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Heads up: static -ification 
Message-ID:  <5219.887061274@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Feb 1998 22:34:52 %2B0100." <19980209223452.41056@follo.net> 

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>> > I'm just about to commit a change that staticize close to everything that
>> > can be staticized and doesn't look unreasonable to staticize (almost 400
>> > variables and functions).
>> 
>> Just out of curiosity, what's the rationale for this? Smaller stack
>> footprint? Faster access to said variables?
>
>There are a multitude of reasons; I'll list some of them:

I'd just like to say thanks to Eivind for this effort.

People should make use of the script in src/tools/tools/kernxref.sh
in the future, unless some other file needs a particular symbol,
it should be made static.

There is no excuse now!

Thanks again Eivind!

--
Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
phk@FreeBSD.ORG               "Real hackers run -current on their laptop."
"Drink MONO-tonic, it goes down but it will NEVER come back up!"

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