On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 3:57 PM, Kang-Che Sung <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This would solve 2 problems.
>> 1. it is clear what the base is (Kang-Che Sung point 3 is valid)
>> 2. in future all claims like "save 200 Bytes (tested on MIPSxyz)" are off 
>> limits.
>>
> What do you mean by "beginning" when it comes to menuconfig interface?

Yep, I also did not have any good ideas where to put the explanation.

> And beside this, there're some more problem that I forgot to mention:
> 4. The sizes will definitely need to be updated somewhen to reflect the code
>    changes, and I won't know how much maintenance burden will there be.
>    Sure it can be automated (like size_single_applets.sh), but updating the
>    Config.in files will probably make you crazy (sorry Denys Vlasenko).

size_single_applets.sh does emit a functioning set of sed
commands which automagically patch all sizes in all menu items.

I surely did not edit all 400 of them by hand :D

Now anyone is free to build on make_single_applets.sh / size_single_applets.sh
and teach it to also measure every option.
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