On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 08:30:56 Sebastien Carlier wrote: > On 2010-11-15 11:54:07, Wolfgang Denk wrote: > > I notice that the patch affects the size of the resulting U-Boot > > images. > > The size increase you noted seems to completely go away when adding > --gc-sections to LDFLAGS, but this option apparently brings its own > issues when the linker discards important unreferenced bits: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg41762.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg42063.html > > These problems can be fixed within linker scripts, but I think it might > be safer to use --gc-sections for diagnostic purposes only...
it's really not that hard to fix things to work with --gc-sections (ive been using it on Blackfin for literally years at this point). people really should be driving to have that supported everywhere. -mike
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