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From: "Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@suse.com>
To: xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
	Keir Fraser <keir@xen.org>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>
Subject: [PATCH] build: avoid putting local absolute symbols in symbol tables
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 08:31:08 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56F4083C02000078000E02BD@prv-mh.provo.novell.com> (raw)

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They're not really useful past the building stage and only needlessly
increase binary file sizes.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

--- a/xen/Rules.mk
+++ b/xen/Rules.mk
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ ALL_OBJS-$(CONFIG_X86)   += $(BASEDIR)/c
 CFLAGS += -nostdinc -fno-builtin -fno-common
 CFLAGS += -Werror -Wredundant-decls -Wno-pointer-arith
 CFLAGS += -pipe -g -D__XEN__ -include $(BASEDIR)/include/xen/config.h
+CFLAGS += -Wa,--strip-local-absolute
 CFLAGS += '-D__OBJECT_FILE__="$@"'
 
 CFLAGS-$(verbose)       += -DVERBOSE




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build: avoid putting local absolute symbols in symbol tables

They're not really useful past the building stage and only needlessly
increase binary file sizes.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

--- a/xen/Rules.mk
+++ b/xen/Rules.mk
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ ALL_OBJS-$(CONFIG_X86)   += $(BASEDIR)/c
 CFLAGS += -nostdinc -fno-builtin -fno-common
 CFLAGS += -Werror -Wredundant-decls -Wno-pointer-arith
 CFLAGS += -pipe -g -D__XEN__ -include $(BASEDIR)/include/xen/config.h
+CFLAGS += -Wa,--strip-local-absolute
 CFLAGS += '-D__OBJECT_FILE__="$@"'
 
 CFLAGS-$(verbose)       += -DVERBOSE

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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-24 14:31 Jan Beulich [this message]
2016-03-24 14:36 ` [PATCH] build: avoid putting local absolute symbols in symbol tables Andrew Cooper
2016-03-29 20:07 ` Doug Goldstein
2016-03-30  7:51   ` Jan Beulich

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