Re: [PATCH 0/4] build system: section garbage collection for vmlinux

[Andi Kleen]

Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> 5159478 1005139  406784 6571401  644589 linux-2.6.23-rc4.org/vmlinux
> 5131822  996090  401439 6529351  63a147 linux-2.6.23-rc4.gc/vmlinux
> 
> In this particular case, 402 objects were discarded, saving 42 kb.

I wonder how many of those are 100% unused on all configurations? 
That could be an useful janitor task to clean up

-Andi
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