[U-Boot] [PATCH] Followup fixes on the mtdparts spread patchset

Wolfgang Denk wd at denx.de
Fri Sep 10 19:32:21 CEST 2010


Dear Ben Gardiner,

In message <AANLkTi=8oQgMy2+_tbLHgrYRoDP8MUBneB8jxjsFTtN6 at mail.gmail.com> you wrote:
> 
> It's fine by me but I'm curious: why move the declaration of the stack
> variables i and net_size to before the check of the block_isbad
> function pointer? Before this change, I think there would be no
> allocation of these variables on the stack if the block_isbad function
> pointer is null.

The optimizer is more clever than you assume.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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