This series reduce the footprint of the QEMU binary: .bss: 106KiB (moved to .heap) .rodata: 4.34MiB (sizes on x86_64 building with -Os)
The elf-dissector tool [1] [2] helped to notice the big array. [1] https://phabricator.kde.org/source/elf-dissector/ [2] https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2019/06/22/elf-dissector-aarch64-support.html Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (6): hw/audio/fmopl: Fix a typo twice hw/audio/fmopl: Move ENV_CURVE to .heap to save 32KiB of .bss hw/usb/quirks: Use smaller types to reduce .rodata by 10KiB hw/audio/intel-hda: Use memory region alias to reduce .rodata by 4.34MB ui/curses: Make control_characters[] array const ui/curses: Move arrays to .heap to save 74KiB of .bss hw/usb/quirks.h | 10 +++++----- hw/audio/fmopl.c | 8 +++++--- hw/audio/intel-hda.c | 24 ++++++++++-------------- ui/curses.c | 10 +++++++--- 4 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) -- 2.21.1