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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Are there any advantages outside of the size things?
> 
> Do we end up packing data better? 
> 
> I'd like to have some more champions of this code, in other words.
> 
> I'd be ok with merging it, but I haven't really gotten a strong feeling 
> that anybody is going to enable it or use it.
> 

It may be a long haul to get people to actually use it, but there is a
fairly major advantage near the end, and that is that we can structure
the source code in a way that makes sense for reading it, rather than
what will end up using what.

Assuming it does work correctly.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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