Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] kbuild: remove top-level built-in.a

2019-01-23 Thread Masahiro Yamada
On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 10:23 AM Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > The symbol table in the final archive is unneeded; the linker does not > require the symbol table after the --whole-archive option. Every object > file in the archive is included in the link anyway. > > Pass thin archives from

[PATCH v3 1/2] kbuild: remove top-level built-in.a

2019-01-16 Thread Masahiro Yamada
The symbol table in the final archive is unneeded; the linker does not require the symbol table after the --whole-archive option. Every object file in the archive is included in the link anyway. Pass thin archives from subdirectories directly to the linker, and remove the final archiving step.