On Wednesday 21 June 2006 18:51, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 January 1970 01:00, Sergey Vlasov wrote:
> > > Currently CONFIG_REORDER uses -ffunction-sections for all code;
> > > however, creating a separate section for each function is not useful
> > > for modules and just adds bloat.
> >
> > You mean the ELF files are larger?
>
> Yes, and all these sections are then reported in sysfs (BTW, what programs
> really use /sys/module/*/sections/* files?).
Good question. I also always considered it bloat.
>
> > .text/.data size shouldn't > change in theory.
>
> Actually, it does change by a small amount for some reason - even
> increases by about 100 bytes in some cases;
Ok maybe a few small vs large jumps
> however, I suppose that the
> size reported by /proc/modules and lsmod is more important, and it
> decreases:
Ok thanks.
-Andi
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