[PATCH] RFC: garbage collect unused code/data?

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 05 April 2006 19:30, David Daney wrote:
> Note that in the case of mips, the linker has had the --gc-sections 
> option for quite some time now, but has only had working support since 
> about 'GNU ld version 2.16.91 20050817'.  The first official binutils 
> release that will work with --gc-sections is 2.17.
> 
> Probably the best way to handle it would be through some sort of 
> configure option (perhaps in conjunction with the linker test).  That 
> way it could be turned off if someone was using a broken tool chain.

Why do you want it configurable? Dropping a few unused code fragments
can never hurt...

I think that with checks for "known good" gcc and ld versions
(arch-dependent) it could be enabled unconditionally.
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vda