[OLPC-devel] Re: linker garbage collection

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 07:57:43PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 23:54 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> 
> > However, latest patch is still http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/4/169
> > 
> > Current TODO:
> > 
> > * Condition CONFIG_GC_SECTIONS on presence of a recent binutils 
> > * Extra config option to allow for non used exported symbols to be swept (must be 
> > non default behaviour) 
> > * Recursive make invocation from Makefile is sort of ugly, Makefile changes
> > can beautified.
> > * Do the same as done for ksymtab* to kcrctab* (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS)
> > * Cover other architectures with KEEP() directives
    * Use -fdata-sections