>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> writes:
> I assume there's something quadratic happening in the linker. It would
> be great if the ld team could fix this, because Graham's trick would be
> useful for many more things than just the kernel. Hell, make it the
> default in gcc's specs file.
In the same spirit, I think gcc should automatically get rid of `static'
functions which are not called in the file. This should be part of
the normal "dead-code elimination".
This does not involve the linker at all. It doesn't catch as many cases
as `-ffunction-sections -Wl,--gc-sections' which also works with globally-dead
functions, but has its own advantages.
Stefan
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