GSOC 2013 project " Kernel Size Reduction for Embedded System "

[Jonathan Anderson]

On Tuesday, 9 April 2013 at 22:18, Joshua Isom wrote:
> Would clang's LTO help for size? I know work's starting on the bsd
> elftools ld, but I doubt it has any LTO support yet. Running -Os on the
> kernel as a whole instead of object files could probably help a lot
> also. I might try to set it up and see a size comparision.


The last I heard, LTO on the kernel required something like 16 GB of RAM and produced a not-quite-working image.


Jon
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