[PATCH u-boot 37/39] ARM: don't use -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections with LTO build

[Marek Behun]

On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:40:42 +0800
Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 12:26 PM Marek Behún <marek.behun at nic.cz> wrote:
> >
> > When building with LTO, using -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections is not
> > useful anymore.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <marek.behun at nic.cz>
> > ---
> >  arch/arm/config.mk | 8 ++++++--
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >  
> 
> I believe we should also remove --gc-sections.

It seems that --gc-sections cannot be removed, otherwise some builds,
for example turris_mox_defconfig, fail with

  LTO     u-boot
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(lse-init.o): in function `init_have_lse_atomics':
/var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/config/aarch64/lse-init.c:44: undefined reference to `__getauxval'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(_absvsi2.o): in function `__absvdi2':
/var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:228: undefined reference to `abort'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(_absvsi2.o): in function `__absvsi2':
/var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:246: undefined reference to `abort'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(_absvdi2.o): in function `__absvti2':
/var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:267: undefined reference to `abort'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(_addvsi3.o): in function `__addvdi3':
/var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:81: undefined reference to `abort'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(_addvsi3.o): in function `__addvsi3':
/var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:92: undefined reference to `abort'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(_addvdi3.o):/var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:106: more undefined references to `abort' follow
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(_eprintf.o): in function `__eprintf':
/var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:2152: undefined reference to `stderr'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:2152: undefined reference to `stderr'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(_eprintf.o): in function `fprintf':
/usr/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/sys-include/bits/stdio2.h:103: undefined reference to `__fprintf_chk'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.2.0/libgcc.a(_eprintf.o): in function `__eprintf':
/var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:2153: undefined reference to `fflush'
/usr/libexec/gcc/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/ld: /var/tmp/portage/cross-aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-10.2.0-r5/work/gcc-10.2.0/libgcc/libgcc2.c:2154: undefined reference to `abort'