[U-Boot] [PATCH v3] Switch from archive libraries to partial linking

Mike Frysinger
2010-11-17T18:06:49Z

On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 08:30:56 Sebastien Carlier wrote:
> On 2010-11-15 11:54:07, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > I notice that the patch affects the size of the resulting U-Boot
> > images.
>
> The size increase you noted seems to completely go away when adding
> --gc-sections to LDFLAGS, but this option apparently brings its own
> issues when the linker discards important unreferenced bits:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg41762.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot at lists.denx.de/msg42063.html
>
> These problems can be fixed within linker scripts, but I think it might
> be safer to use --gc-sections for diagnostic purposes only...

it's really not that hard to fix things to work with --gc-sections (ive been
using it on Blackfin for literally years at this point). people really should
be driving to have that supported everywhere.
-mike
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