[U-Boot] [PATCH 62/71] serial: spl: Implement empty functions for SPL

[Tom Rini]

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On 09/18/12 11:33, Marek Vasut wrote:
> Dear Scott Wood,
[snip]
>> I think I got some wires crossed and was thinking about
>> printf/puts. We want those to be optimized away at compile time
>> (not pointed to a stub at link time) on an SPL that has no output
>> support, but once that's done the low level serial functions
>> shouldn't be referenced anymore, right?
> 
> But if you point them to stubs, that's OK. The compiler will GC
> these useless stubs anyway. But wait, we're getting to LTO here,
> right?
> 
> So the safest bet really is macro in serial.h ?

Due to the gcc bug I've mentioned before, yes.  Dummy functions will,
I bet, keep the string constants around.  do {} while(0) will drop
them out entirely.

- -- 
Tom

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