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Subject: Re: [9fans] Data segment vs BSS
From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:39:17 +0000
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> This will usually save a ton of space -- it's 
> what we do on linuxbios, and the savings (surprise for me) really adds up.

i was quite surprised how much SRAM on the atmel was occupied
by string literals, so traces and diagnostics quickly became terse;
still using letters not error numbers, though, so as not to
confuse data with disaster.   i suppose it wouldn't, however, be string literals
in linuxbios because gcc (i thought) tags them for rom.