On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 10:34:38PM +0200, Oleg Verych wrote: > On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 07:46:11PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 September 2007 16:53, Oleg Verych wrote: > > > * Wed, 5 Sep 2007 14:43:21 +0100 > > > * User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 > > > > > > > > Build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux > > > > > > Maybe this is just a test suit to get finish with `make XYZ static`? > > > > They are vaguely connected in a sense that unused function which is > > not marked static doesn't generate gcc warning, but will be discarded > > by --gc-sections. "make XYZ static" also tends to find them - you make > > function static, you recompile the file, and gcc informs you that > > the function is not used at all! > > > > This happened to me when I did aic7xxx patches. > > > > You may yse --print-gc-sections to see the list of discarded sections. > > Anyway, this is gccism/binutilizm. That about other possible/future > options?
The kernel requires GNU gcc and GNU binutils, and if you want to use other tools for building the kernel they have to be sufficiently compatible. > Give me example, please, why function must be non static if not used. s/not used/not used in this kernel configuration/ > If usage requires kconfig tuning, then this is a better way to go, than > to adopt yet another GNU/Luxury. The alternative would be to use an unmaintainable amount of #ifdef's. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/