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Date:      Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:31:04 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Matthew Fleming <mdf@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections
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On 17 September 2013 16:22, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 14:56 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > ... I'd rather see if we can actually separate out things some more so
> > these builds can shrink.
> >
> > Eg, if there's malloc related functions that aren't used, maybe we should
> > break malloc down into a directory full of functions.
> >
>
> Why is that better than using this automated solution?
>

Not everyone is going to run clang on their target development platform? :-)

Personally I'd rather structure my work to behave better instead of doing
something that relies on a specific tool/suite to be able to optimise.



-adrian



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