From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pf0-x236.google.com (mail-pf0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c00::236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3s72vX3HCSzDqS5 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2016 13:29:12 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-pf0-x236.google.com with SMTP id h186so114260712pfg.3 for ; Sun, 07 Aug 2016 20:29:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 13:29:03 +1000 From: Nicholas Piggin To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, Stephen Rothwell , Arnd Bergmann , Nicolas Pitre , Segher Boessenkool , Alan Modra Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] kbuild: allow archs to select build for link dead code/data elimination Message-ID: <20160808132903.0e37c967@roar.ozlabs.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20160806201423.GB25821@ravnborg.org> References: <1470399123-8455-1-git-send-email-npiggin@gmail.com> <1470399123-8455-3-git-send-email-npiggin@gmail.com> <20160806201423.GB25821@ravnborg.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Sat, 6 Aug 2016 22:14:23 +0200 Sam Ravnborg wrote: > On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 10:12:00PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > 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? Thanks, Nick