On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:27:57PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 04:47:40PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:22:04AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I'd like to commit this for 1.97; it's important for users of recent > > > distributions that use GCC 4.4 by default (which is the current release > > > series of GCC). Otherwise, the core is too big to embed when using LVM > > > and RAID (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/423412). > > > Any objections? > > > > Very nice that you found this. I consider it a bug, and I agree it should > > be fixed in 1.97. > > > > But shouldn't this be handled by `strip' instead? IIRC we already do it > > this way for other unwanted sections. > > I just tried this out. It works in that the image is below 32KB again, > but it's 30424 bytes rather than the 30331 bytes produced by not > generating the unwind information in the first place. > > Based on the discussion in the patchwork.kernel.org URL, I think that > GCC generates unwind information in two places in some cases; only one > of those corresponds to an ELF section. I'm not terribly familiar with > the details, though.
Ok. Unless someone knows better, I'm fine with your previous approach. -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
