17 Nov
2010
17 Nov
'10
7:06 p.m.
On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 08:30:56 Sebastien Carlier wrote:
On 2010-11-15 11:54:07, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
I notice that the patch affects the size of the resulting U-Boot images.
The size increase you noted seems to completely go away when adding --gc-sections to LDFLAGS, but this option apparently brings its own issues when the linker discards important unreferenced bits:
http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg41762.html http://www.mail-archive.com/u-boot@lists.denx.de/msg42063.htmlThese problems can be fixed within linker scripts, but I think it might be safer to use --gc-sections for diagnostic purposes only...
it's really not that hard to fix things to work with --gc-sections (ive been using it on Blackfin for literally years at this point). people really should be driving to have that supported everywhere. -mike