From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15066 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2012 20:34:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 14727 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Sep 2012 20:34:34 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.3 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from localhost (HELO gcc.gnu.org) (127.0.0.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:34:20 +0000 From: "tom.rini at gmail dot com" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug c/54303] -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections and -fmerge-constants do not work well together Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2012 20:34:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: c X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: tom.rini at gmail dot com X-Bugzilla-Status: RESOLVED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Target Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2012-09/txt/msg00292.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54303 Tom Rini changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Target|arm*, x86_64-linux-gnu |arm*-linux-gnu --- Comment #4 from Tom Rini 2012-09-04 20:34:18 UTC --- (In reply to comment #3) > Someone needs to tell the linker to garbage collect sections .... -Wl, > --gc-sections ? Please re-read the initial post. This works, as expected on x86_64 and does NOT on ARM as on ARM all of the strings are placed into a single .rodata section while on x86_64 they are placed into per-function sections.