From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
Lennert Buytenhek <kernel@wantstofly.org>,
Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>,
linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Dave Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/23] make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:56:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <60320.1214952973@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:33:48 +0200." <200807020233.48646.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
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On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:33:48 +0200, Denys Vlasenko said:
> The purpose of these patches is to make kernel buildable
> with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections".
>
> Newer gcc and binutils can do dead code and data removal
> at link time. It is achieved using combination of
> -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections options for gcc and
> --gc-sections for ld.
Interesting idea. Do you happen to have before-and-after 'size vmlinux'
numbers to show how much space is actually reclaimed?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-01 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-02 0:33 [PATCH 1/23] make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-01 22:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2008-07-01 22:56 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-07-02 0:03 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-02 0:03 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-02 0:33 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-02 1:28 ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-02 1:28 ` Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-02 4:30 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-02 7:09 ` Denys Vlasenko
2008-07-02 7:09 ` Denys Vlasenko
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