Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 21:12:04 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: mi@aldan.algebra.com (Mikhail Teterin) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: strings in the kernel (was: snprintf() in the kernel) Message-ID: <199811200512.VAA18941@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199811191355.NAA03525@aldan.algebra.com> from Mikhail Teterin at "Nov 19, 98 01:55:25 pm"
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Mikhail Teterin writes: > This reminds me of a marginally related issue: > > strings /kernel | sort -u | wc > 14409 22343 235606 > vs. > strings /kernel | wc > 25522 34130 317264 > > In other words, there are 11113 duplicate lines in my kernel, > amounting for a total of 91658 bytes. And this does not even include > different strings with huge common sub-strings, such as: Sounds like a job for mr. linker.. is there support the smashing together of identical strings in the text segment? -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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