[U-Boot] Size of external u-boot commands

[Detlev Zundel]

Hi Wolfgang,

> In message <m27i2bl0a3.fsf at ohwell.denx.de> you wrote:
>> 
>> > By providing a sample linker script to make the example programs
>> > smaller, you could avoid discussions like this in the future.
>> 
>> But as long as we do not understand what we change or what this does, we
>> may well get a lot of bug threads in return.  And I have to admit, I'm
>> not to keen on that.
>
> But we do understand what's going on, or am I missing something?

I was referring to the other proposed change which I still do not
understand:

> The *.bin files are ending up at 60-75K.  Adding this to the linker
> script fixes it.
>   .gcc_except_table : ONLY_IF_RO { KEEP (*(.gcc_except_table))
> *(.gcc_except_table.*) }

I fully agree that the examples should rather use defaults because as
the name implies, they are examples after all, not tightly optimized
special cases.

Cheers
  Detlev

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