Re: Linux v2.5.46

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 16:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Especially since we expect the array to be potentially megabytes in the 
> end (especially if somebody wants to make a bootable CD using this), and 
> at least traditional gcc's would do horrible O(n^2) things with big 
> initialized arrays. 

Newer gcc is much saner, but there are other ways to do it - gas is
quite happy to chew a 10Mb .byte file 8)