Dear Tom Rini,
> On 09/18/12 11:33, Marek Vasut wrote:
> > Dear Scott Wood,
>
> [snip]
>
> >> I think I got some wires crossed and was thinking about
> >> printf/puts. We want those to be optimized away at compile time
> >> (not pointed to a stub at link time) on an SPL that has no output
> >> support, but once that's done the low level serial functions
> >> shouldn't be referenced anymore, right?
> >
> > But if you point them to stubs, that's OK. The compiler will GC
> > these useless stubs anyway. But wait, we're getting to LTO here,
> > right?
> >
> > So the safest bet really is macro in serial.h ?
>
> Due to the gcc bug I've mentioned before, yes. Dummy functions will,
> I bet, keep the string constants around. do {} while(0) will drop
> them out entirely.
Yea ... the GCC bug, what a crap :-(
Best regards,
Marek Vasut
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