On Monday 09 January 2012 16:25:41 Tom Rini wrote: > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Tom Rini <tom.r...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> On Monday 09 January 2012 14:41:07 Scott Wood wrote: > >>> Unless/until the toolchain can properly GC anonymous strings, I think > >>> finer-grained conditional compilation is the way to go. > >> > >> i think we should use GC when it works (we've found 1 case so far where > >> it doesn't), and add fine grained compilation when it doesn't (with a > >> note with expected working versions). i think this is a bug in the > >> linker and have been trying to make a reduced test case that i can post > >> to the GNU binutils peeps. > > > > We've found two cases, at least. Functions aren't being dropped out > > either. > > To be clear, > https://github.com/trini/u-boot/commit/3a7c313125eff000ac73e38d220e5f9615c > 1abbe shows switching everything to the normal nand codebase, but with a > gain of only 170 bytes. The reason it's such an otherwise small delta is > that I added some #ifndef CONFIG_SPL_BUILD to drop out unused code that > the linker should have been dropping for us, but wasn't.
how exactly do i reproduce the issue ? what do i `make xxx` ? -mike
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