On Tuesday 25 September 2012 18:42:05 Rich Felker wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 02:06:04PM +0200, Florian Fainelli wrote: > > From: Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> > > > > Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <n...@openwrt.org> > > --- > > Makefile.flags | 2 +- > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/Makefile.flags b/Makefile.flags > > index e77c0e5..f129cef 100644 > > --- a/Makefile.flags > > +++ b/Makefile.flags > > @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-builtin-strlen -finline- limit=0 -fomit-frame-poi > > # -fno-guess-branch-probability: prohibit pseudo-random guessing > > # of branch probabilities (hopefully makes bloatcheck more stable): > > CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-guess-branch-probability,) > > -CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-funsigned-char -static-libgcc,) > > +CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-funsigned-char,) > > On most systems this flag should be a no-op, but when it's not, you > definitely want it. Using shared libgcc might save a tiny amount of > space in the binary, but it will add 4-8k of memory usage to each > instance of busybox at runtime. This is not a reasonable tradeoff.
Ok, so maybe we should make this available via some configuration knob? For sure, we'd like to save the space involved by using a statically linked libgcc to busybox. What do you think? -- Florian _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list busybox@busybox.net http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox