Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754962AbZDTXtU (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:49:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753432AbZDTXs6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:48:58 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:49423 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752304AbZDTXs6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:48:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:40:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Tim Abbott cc: Linux kernel mailing list , Anders Kaseorg , Waseem Daher , Denys Vlasenko , Rusty Russell , Andi Kleen , "H. Peter Anvin" , Stephen Rothwell , Jeff Arnold , Andrew Morton , Jon Masters Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1238973278-31735-1-git-send-email-tabbott@mit.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1004 Lines: 28 On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Tim Abbott wrote: > > Is there a problem that is preventing this -ffunction-sections patch > series from being merged? Quite frankly, every time I see something like this, I shudder. Why? The bugs in the toolchains tend to be infinite and _really_ annoying. We'll end up with everything from "gcc-xyz cannot handle it" to "binutils-abc which was pre-released by RH/Ubuntu/SUSE will SIGSEGV". And those are the _good_ cases. The bad cases are just silently miscompiled/linked stuff under certain circumstances. In other words, I'm not going to merge it without a _lot_ of people pushing me on it with nice numbers etc. Because I absolutely hate the tools issues that I'm convinced will happen the moment I merge it. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/