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From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] Add support for compiling with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 03:49:41 +0200
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On Tuesday 21 April 2009 03:25, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> > Are there any advantages outside of the size things?
> > 
> > Do we end up packing data better? 
> > 
> > I'd like to have some more champions of this code, in other words.
> > 
> > I'd be ok with merging it, but I haven't really gotten a strong feeling 
> > that anybody is going to enable it or use it.
> > 
> 
> It may be a long haul to get people to actually use it, but there is a
> fairly major advantage near the end, and that is that we can structure
> the source code in a way that makes sense for reading it, rather than
> what will end up using what.
> 
> Assuming it does work correctly.

It's not like it's known to be broken. I use it all the time
for the stuff I build.
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