Re: [patch 00/2] improve .text size on gcc 4.0 and newer compilers

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 10:23:13PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> (there's a third thing that i was also playing with, -ffunction-sections 
> and -fdata-sections, but those dont seem to be reliable on the binutils 
> side yet.)

They should be - I'd bet more on the kernel's linker scripts, and other
weird bits like that.  Feel free to report any problems, though.

However, -ffunction-sections tends to increase size in non-discarded
functions.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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