Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:55:14 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 14/23] make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections: parisc |
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 09:41:47AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:00 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 July 2008 01:41, James Bottomley wrote: > > > On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 02:39 +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > > > The purpose of this patch is to make kernel buildable > > > > with "gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections". > > > > This patch fixes parisc architecture. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> > > > > > > Um ... if you look at the Makefile you'll see we already build parisc > > > with -ffunction-sections; we have to: our relative jumps are too small > > > to guarantee finding the stubs in large files. > > > > > > Since our text is -ffunction-sections compatible already, I question the > > > need for transformations like this: > > We've been building FR-V kernels with --gc-sections for a long time, > too. >...
Is there any specific reason why it's not done in the upstream kernel?
> dwmw2
cu Adrian
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