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The mStatusString[] array is constructed as an array of pointer-to-char, which means that on X64 or AARCH64, it is emitted as a single linear list of 64-bit quantities, each containing the absolute address of one of the string literals in memory. This means that each string takes up 8 bytes of additional space, along with 2 bytes of relocation data. It also means that extra work needs to be done at runtime to process these relocations, every time a module is loaded that incorporates this library. So fix both issues, by splitting mStatusString into two arrays of char arrays. The memory footprint decreases from 955 to 843 bytes, and given that in the latter case, the overhead consists of 278 NUL characters rather than 390 bytes worth of absolute addresses and relocation records, the size of a compressed image is reduced even further. For example, when building ArmVirtQemu.dsc in RELEASE mode for AARCH64 with the GCC5 profile, I get: Before FV Space Information FVMAIN [100%Full] 5329920 total, 5329920 used, 0 free FVMAIN_COMPACT [38%Full] 2093056 total, 811840 used, 1281216 free After FV Space Information FVMAIN [100%Full] 5321728 total, 5321728 used, 0 free FVMAIN_COMPACT [38%Full] 2093056 total, 809696 used, 1283360 free So the uncompressed contents of the compressed image are 8 KB smaller, whereas the resulting flash image (consisting of the compressed image along with SEC, PEI_CORE and a set of PEIMs that execute in place) is 2 KB smaller. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@arm.com> Reviewed-by: Zhiguang Liu <zhiguang.liu@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Liming Gao <liming.gao@intel.com> |
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