[RFC][patch] slight generic size reduction

[Bernhard Fischer]

Hi,

Do we want that one? It saves 114 bytes "for free"..

Alternatively, one could look at ar to do a better layout on behalf of
us, it seems.

me at there:/tmp$ svn diff busybox/Rules.mak
Index: busybox/Rules.mak
===================================================================
--- busybox/Rules.mak   (revision 14700)
+++ busybox/Rules.mak   (working copy)
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@
 cmd_compile.h      = $(HOSTCC) $(HOSTCFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<
 cmd_strip          = $(STRIPCMD) $@
 cmd_link           = $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
-cmd_ar             = $(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $^
+cmd_ar             = $(AR) $(ARFLAGS) $@ $(shell ls -r -S $^)
 compile.c          = @$(disp_compile.c) ; $(cmd_compile.c)
 compile.h          = @$(disp_compile.h) ; $(cmd_compile.h)
 do_strip           = @$(disp_strip)     ; $(cmd_strip)
me at there:/tmp$ for i in .oorig '';do cd busybox$i;make defconfig ; make;cd
-;done 2>1 >& /dev/zero;size busybox.oorig/busybox busybox/busybox
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 916655   11264 1039172 1967091  1e03f3 busybox.oorig/busybox
 916689   11256 1039032 1966977  1e0381 busybox/busybox