This option is supported by both gcc (since 4.7) and clang (since 7.0). Not only does this make the linkers job easier by reducing the amount of ELF it needs to parse it also reduces the total build size quite considerably. In my case a default build went from 5.8G to 3.9G.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> --- RFC: - currently and RFC because it should also apply to test binaries --- meson.build | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build index 4588bfd864..a936d1b422 100644 --- a/meson.build +++ b/meson.build @@ -363,7 +363,7 @@ endforeach qemu_common_flags = [ '-D_GNU_SOURCE', '-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', '-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE', - '-fno-strict-aliasing', '-fno-common', '-fwrapv' ] + '-fno-strict-aliasing', '-fno-common', '-fwrapv', '-gsplit-dwarf' ] qemu_cflags = [] qemu_ldflags = [] -- 2.39.5
