Re: [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: allow archs to select build for link dead code/data elimination

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 01:29:03PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:

On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 22:14:23 +0200
Sam Ravnborg [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:12:00PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:

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Introduce LINKER_DCE option for architectures to select if they want
to build with -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections, and link with
--gc-sections.  

Can you please try to come up with a less cryptic name.
"DCE" may make sense for you today.
Bot the naive reader will benefit from the longer and
more explcit form.

Yes that's a good idea. The name sucks.

We don't seem to consistently have a prefix for build configuration
options, but we could start? KBUILD_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION?

For cc related options we sort of have: KCONFIG_CC IIRC.
So for LD related options we could use the shorter CONFIG_LD_ prefix.

	Sam