vsprintf: factorize "(null)" string
This patchset reduces lib/lib.a code size by 482 bytes on my Core 2 with
gcc 4.4.1 even considering that it exports a newly defined function
skip_spaces() to drivers:
text data bss dec hex filename
64867 840 592 66299 102fb (TOTALS-lib.a-BEFORE)
64641 584 592 65817 10119 (TOTALS-lib.a-AFTER)
and implements some code tidy up.
Besides reducing lib.a size, it converts many in-tree drivers to use the
newly defined function, which makes another small reduction on kernel size
overall when those drivers are used.
This patch:
Change "<NULL>" to "(null)", unifying 3 equal strings.
glibc also uses "(null)" for the same purpose.
It decreases code size by 7 bytes:
text data bss dec hex filename
15765 0 8 15773 3d9d vsprintf.o (ex lib/lib.a-BEFORE)
15758 0 8 15766 3d96 vsprintf.o (ex lib/lib.a-AFTER)
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/lib/vsprintf.c b/lib/vsprintf.c
index 6438cd5..e5ab51f 100644
--- a/lib/vsprintf.c
+++ b/lib/vsprintf.c
@@ -546,12 +546,12 @@
return buf;
}
-static char *string(char *buf, char *end, char *s, struct printf_spec spec)
+static char *string(char *buf, char *end, const char *s, struct printf_spec spec)
{
int len, i;
if ((unsigned long)s < PAGE_SIZE)
- s = "<NULL>";
+ s = "(null)";
len = strnlen(s, spec.precision);
@@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@
size_t len;
if ((unsigned long)save_str > (unsigned long)-PAGE_SIZE
|| (unsigned long)save_str < PAGE_SIZE)
- save_str = "<NULL>";
+ save_str = "(null)";
len = strlen(save_str);
if (str + len + 1 < end)
memcpy(str, save_str, len + 1);
