Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:40:58 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections |
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On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Tim Abbott wrote: > > Is there a problem that is preventing this -ffunction-sections patch > series from being merged?
Quite frankly, every time I see something like this, I shudder.
Why?
The bugs in the toolchains tend to be infinite and _really_ annoying. We'll end up with everything from "gcc-xyz cannot handle it" to "binutils-abc which was pre-released by RH/Ubuntu/SUSE will SIGSEGV".
And those are the _good_ cases. The bad cases are just silently miscompiled/linked stuff under certain circumstances.
In other words, I'm not going to merge it without a _lot_ of people pushing me on it with nice numbers etc. Because I absolutely hate the tools issues that I'm convinced will happen the moment I merge it.
Linus
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