Hello, On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008 14:11:49 David Woodhouse wrote: >> I agree. And if we do want to pay attention to pure code size, there are >> other approaches -- like --gc-sections and/or building with '--combine >> -fwhole-program' which I was playing with for OLPC a while back. I must >> dust that off now that the GCC fixes should mostly have made it into >> current distributions. > > I like simplicity. I like _simple_. Half my attraction to embedded systems > Same here. > I submitted a patch to remove the use of perl to build the linux kernel (which > HPA added in 2.6.25) not because it affected the result, but because it > unnecessarily complicates the build system. (And perl tends to metasticize. Thanks, I hope it is or gets accepted. In general I think one of the aspects of embedded Linux is about minimizing the amount of bloat dependencies. Especially, when each dependency can explode in a hurd of new dependencies. > "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code." > - Ken Thompson. > How appropriate. Regards, -- Leon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
