Hi Haavard, On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:44 AM, Haavard Skinnemoen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ben Warren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I propose to wrap both the 'board/$(BOARDDIR)/lib$(BOARD).a' and >> 'cpu/$(CPU)/lib$(CPU).a' arguments to ld in >> --whole-module/--no-whole-module in order to accomplish this goal. We >> definitely don't want to do this across the board because image size >> will increase quite a bit due to unused code. > > You can counter that additional size and more by adding --gc-sections to > the linker command line and -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections to gcc. > That will probably even get rid of the weak implementation if a strong > definition is provided. > > There's a catch though -- if your linker script isn't prepared for > this, things will break. > > Haavard > >From what I've read, this --gc-sections thing is pretty new, and lots of people are using older tools, so that idea has to be thrown out. Fun stuff...
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