From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 16:23:37 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] gcc: Support configure option --with-linker-hash-style In-Reply-To: <20171215232530.9388-1-stefan.froberg@petroprogram.com> References: <20171215232530.9388-1-stefan.froberg@petroprogram.com> Message-ID: <20171216162337.667a30da@windsurf> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 01:25:30 +0200, Stefan Fr?berg wrote: > This will set the default hash style that GCC will > always use during linking. > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Fr?berg Could you explain the motivation for configuring the default hash style? If "gnu" gives the best application startup time, why would we use a different one? Generally, the commit log lacks a bit of background, i.e the "why" we would want such a change. Thanks! Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com