Finally GCC's garbage collector works on ARC so let's use it. That's what I may see for HSDK:

Before: text data bss dec hex filename 290153 10068 222616 522837 7fa55 u-boot

After: text data bss dec hex filename 261999 9460 222360 493819 788fb u-boot

Overall ~5% of memory footprint saved.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin abrodkin@synopsys.com --- arch/arc/config.mk | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arc/config.mk b/arch/arc/config.mk index 13676bd0c8e1..a19c188dbcfa 100644 --- a/arch/arc/config.mk +++ b/arch/arc/config.mk @@ -51,9 +51,10 @@ PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -mcpu=archs endif

PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -ffixed-r25 -D__ARC__ -gdwarf-2 +PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections

# Needed for relocation -LDFLAGS_FINAL += -pie +LDFLAGS_FINAL += -pie --gc-sections

# Load address for standalone apps CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR ?= 0x82000000