Re: to reduce footprint

[Lin George]

A great guide line Kristof! I have heard of all of them except this one, "ld's 
-gc-sections". What its function?


regards,
George


> As a rough guide:
> - Strip debug information (strip)
> - Optimize for size (-Os)
> - Use gcc's -fdata-sections/-ffunction-sections and ld's -gc-sections
> to remove unused functions.
> - use a compressed file system like SquashFS. (depending on your target
> and requirements of course)
>
> Kristof

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