Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections-fdata-sections

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Tim Abbott wrote:
>
> Is there a problem that is preventing this -ffunction-sections patch 
> series from being merged?

Quite frankly, every time I see something like this, I shudder.

Why?

The bugs in the toolchains tend to be infinite and _really_ annoying. 
We'll end up with everything from "gcc-xyz cannot handle it" to 
"binutils-abc which was pre-released by RH/Ubuntu/SUSE will SIGSEGV". 

And those are the _good_ cases. The bad cases are just silently 
miscompiled/linked stuff under certain circumstances.

In other words, I'm not going to merge it without a _lot_ of people 
pushing me on it with nice numbers etc. Because I absolutely hate the 
tools issues that I'm convinced will happen the moment I merge it.

		Linus
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