Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:06:49 -0700 From: Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: mdf@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Subject: Re: -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections Message-ID: <CAHSQbTDkgWSTkzgH6=vz=OGigg9fFotoVkruwa0Fmh1_AebCUA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmokpYwqR-V-iocBs_hYJwBfdcafA81r3uuOVwUwgVc2r0A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJOYFBBGY0GosPwG1B=1MKyapChEtX-O97r2zhXpGS8o7WO3gA@mail.gmail.com> <CAMBSHm_Qk13P=j1VOzuibYaeHFVF%2BCuXbTYL=q8ToDP6wL5X5w@mail.gmail.com> <CAJOYFBBUT5v1E6L0JkdrAXFmJmR0W2tmyNrC71k8mahLiF5vWg@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmonnuskWb%2Bk7JtpgAfB6PV3FD6YCgreioJcfhBpCJm6naA@mail.gmail.com> <1379460140.1197.59.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <CAJ-VmokpYwqR-V-iocBs_hYJwBfdcafA81r3uuOVwUwgVc2r0A@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sep 17, 2013 4:31 PM, "Adrian Chadd" <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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. > Gcc also supports this. I used it when generating builds with newlib for microcontrollers at a previous job. -Justin
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