[PATCH 17/17] bfd/ELF/PPC: make ppc_build_one_stub()'s stub_str[] static

Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Mon Aug 4 09:26:57 GMT 2025


There's no reason to have the compiler materialize objects onto the
stack.

In fact we can save some space and a level of indirection (and hence
relocation entries in the final binary) by converting to an array of
char[12].

--- a/bfd/elf64-ppc.c
+++ b/bfd/elf64-ppc.c
@@ -12226,9 +12226,9 @@ ppc_build_one_stub (struct bfd_hash_entr
       struct elf_link_hash_entry *h;
       size_t len1, len2;
       char *name;
-      const char *const stub_str[] = { "long_branch",
-				       "plt_branch",
-				       "plt_call" };
+      static const char stub_str[][12] = { "long_branch",
+					   "plt_branch",
+					   "plt_call" };
 
       len1 = strlen (stub_str[stub_entry->type.main - 1]);
       len2 = strlen (stub_entry->root.string);



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