[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] gcc: Support configure option --with-linker-hash-style

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Sat Dec 16 15:23:37 UTC 2017


Hello,

On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 01:25:30 +0200, Stefan Fröberg wrote:
> This will set the default hash style that GCC will 
> always use during linking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Fröberg <stefan.froberg at petroprogram.com>

Could you explain the motivation for configuring the default hash
style? If "gnu" gives the best application startup time, why would we
use a different one?

Generally, the commit log lacks a bit of background, i.e the "why" we
would want such a change.

Thanks!

Thomas
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