[PATCH*,RFC] shrinkage

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Friday 09 May 2008 16:14, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> [resending with patch*, sorry if you get this twice, vda]
> Hi,
> 
> The attached patch provides shrinkage when building a shared lib.
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  696190    7325    9432  712947   ae0f3
> trunk_lib/libbusybox.so.1.11.0.svn
>  694880    7189    9432  711501   adb4d 0_lib/libbusybox.so.1.11.0.svn

Thanks, I was wanting to do something like that too.

Can you send me your .config for reprodusibility?

> There is one unrelated hunk in there to avoid a known (and fixed in 4.4,
> IIRC) bug with --combine; search for flush_update and
> rtnl_filter_flush_update. I will probably drop this hunk (or if
> somebody reviews it, we should apply it separately).
> 
> Objections? Ok to commit?

I want to try a few more ideas atop of it.
Will inform you (most likely today).
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vda