Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:11:03 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/7] Make section names compatible with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections |
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> So we `make it possible to build the kernel > with "gcc > -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections"'. So what? Where is the value in > that?
The original reason was that it allows the linker to drop unused functions automatically. That is a good thing by itself -- e.g. if it was universal we could avoid a lot of #ifdefs. And it also turned out that standard kernel builds get smaller by it iirc.
-Andi
-- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.
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