Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.17-rc1

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:32 PM Michael Ellerman [off-list ref] wrote:

Also I haven't been seeing this in my local builds because I have:

CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y

So I guess we need to work out why that's interfering with section
mismatch analysis.

One other common case of missing section mismatch warnings is when some
versions of the compiler inline the called function, while other versions don't.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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