Re: [U-Boot] [Nios2-dev] [PATCH] nios2: use gc sections to reduce image size

On 28/05/10 23:27, Thomas Chou wrote:

Ian Abbott wrote:

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On 28/05/2010 05:08, Thomas Chou wrote:

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Follow the discussion of Charles Manning and Mike Frysinger. Using gc_sections helps reduce image size.

Hi Thomas,

Will that stop it working with the gcc3-based nios2 nommu toolchain? The version of 'ld' in that toolchain doesn't support the --gc-sections option.

Hi Ian,

I have tested with the gcc3-based nios2 nommu toolchain and gc-sections works.

The error that we met when building busybox might be caused by the elf2flt process. There is no such problem generating elf.

Hi Thomas,

That was probably it then. I *knew* we had some problem building BusyBox with --gc-sections!