Finally GCC's garbage collector works on ARC so let's use it.
That's what I may see for HSDK:
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
290153 10068 222616 522837 7fa55 u-boot
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
261999 9460 222360 493819 788fb u-boot
Overall ~5% of memory footprint saved.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Brodkin <abrodkin@synopsys.com>
endif
PLATFORM_CPPFLAGS += -ffixed-r25 -D__ARC__ -gdwarf-2 -mno-sdata
+PLATFORM_RELFLAGS += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
# Needed for relocation
-LDFLAGS_FINAL += -pie
+LDFLAGS_FINAL += -pie --gc-sections
# Load address for standalone apps
CONFIG_STANDALONE_LOAD_ADDR ?= 0x82000000