> Under what circumstances will the compiler (or linker?) do this? Compiler. > LTO enabled? Yes it's for LTO. The optimization allows the compiler to drop unused functions, which is very popular with users (a lot use it to get smaller kernel images) -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html