On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:12:30PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > On Monday 23 June 2008 20:57, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > I agree. And if we do want to pay attention to pure code size, there are > > > > other approaches -- like --gc-sections > > > > > > I have some patches in this area too. Were submitted to Sam > > > but he was too busy it seems. > > > > They were not trivial to apply and so went down on the TODO list. > > I realize that they were not trivial to review, but that > was unavoidable. They were even more not trivial to create. > > > We could try to push the generic and x86 specific .lds stuff via > > the arch maintainers? > > IIRC I splitted the entire GC collection patch in a way > that first patches were doing exactly this easier first part > and I hoped that at least these first patches > will be taken. They were big, but somewhat trivial, > from "it's obviously safe" department. I do not recall anything wrong with the patch-set. > > Had they been applied, now making --gc-sections to work > would be easier. Agreed. I should have asked you to push this via arch maintainers back then. Sam -- 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
