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From: Thomas Chou <thomas@wytron.com.tw>
Date: Sat, 29 May 2010 06:27:42 +0800
Subject: [U-Boot] [Nios2-dev] [PATCH] nios2: use gc sections to reduce
	image size
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Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 28/05/2010 05:08, Thomas Chou wrote:
>> Follow the discussion of Charles Manning and Mike Frysinger.
>> Using gc_sections helps reduce image size.
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Will that stop it working with the gcc3-based nios2 nommu toolchain?
> The version of 'ld' in that toolchain doesn't support the --gc-sections
> option.
> 

Hi Ian,

I have tested with the gcc3-based nios2 nommu toolchain and gc-sections 
works.

The error that we met when building busybox might be caused by the 
elf2flt process. There is no such problem generating elf.

Best regards,
Thomas