[PATCH] use per function sections + --gc-sections: saves ~5k
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Fri Mar 3 17:47:05 UTC 2006
On Friday 03 March 2006 1:24 am, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This patch passes -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections to gcc
> and --gc-sections to ld. Result:
>
> # size busybox.org.tst/busybox busybox.sections.tst/busybox
> text data bss dec hex filename
> 920143 12268 1047076 1979487 1e345f busybox.org.tst/busybox
> 915759 10616 1045572 1971947 1e16eb busybox.sections.tst/busybox
That's highly cool. What exactly does this do? (If somebody who understands
what this does wants to apply it, I have no objections...)
Rob
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