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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 14:23:02 -0500
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH 62/71] serial: spl: Implement empty functions
 for SPL
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	Sep 18 13:33:11 2012)
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On 09/18/2012 01:33:11 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Scott Wood,
> 
> > On 09/18/2012 01:03:17 PM, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > > I'd say the GCC must optimize it out anyway.
> >
> > I think I got some wires crossed and was thinking about printf/puts.
> > We want those to be optimized away at compile time (not pointed to a
> > stub at link time) on an SPL that has no output support, but once
> > that's done the low level serial functions shouldn't be referenced
> > anymore, right?
> 
> But if you point them to stubs, that's OK. The compiler will GC these  
> useless
> stubs anyway. But wait, we're getting to LTO here, right?
> 
> So the safest bet really is macro in serial.h ?

For printf/puts, we want something header-based.  For the serial  
functions it depends on whether we have call sites that do not get GCed.

-Scott