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Message-Id: <1445603426-4827-1-git-send-email-vda.linux@googlemail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:30:26 +0200 From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com> To: Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>, musl <musl@...ts.openwall.com> Subject: [PATCH] configure: add gcc flags for better link-time optimization libc.so size reduction: text data bss dec hex filename 564099 1944 11768 577811 8d113 libc.so.before 562277 1924 11576 575777 8c921 libc.so Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com> CC: musl <musl@...ts.openwall.com> --- configure | 38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 38 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 4564ad8..a9ed159 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -440,6 +440,44 @@ tryflag CFLAGS_AUTO -fno-unwind-tables tryflag CFLAGS_AUTO -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables # +# When linker merges sections, a tiny section (such as one resulting +# from "static char flag_var") with no alignment restrictions +# can end up logded between two more strongly aligned ones (say, +# "static int global_cnt1/2", both of which want 32-bit alignment). +# Then this byte-sized "flag_var" gets 3 bytes of padding. +# +# With section sorting by alignment, one-byte flag variables have +# higher chance of being grouped together and not require padding. +# (It can be made even better. Linker is too dumb. +# ld needs to grow -Wl,--pack-sections-optimally) +# +# For us, this affects the size of only one file: libc.so +# +tryldflag LDFLAGS_AUTO -Wl,--sort-section=alignment +tryldflag LDFLAGS_AUTO -Wl,--sort-common + +# +# Put every function and data object into its own section: +# .text.funcname, .data.var, .rodata.const_struct, .bss.zerovar +# +# Previous optimization isn't working too well by itself +# because data objects aren't living in separate sections, +# they are all grouped in one .data and one .bss section per *.o file. +# With -ffunction/data-sections, section sorting eliminates more padding. +# +# Object files in static *.a files will also have their functions +# and data objects each in its own section. +# +# This enables programs statically linked with -Wl,--gc-sections +# to perform "section garbage collection": drop unused code and data +# not on per-*.o-file basis, but on per-function and per-object basis. +# This is a big thing: --gc-sections sometimes eliminates several percent +# of unreachable code and data in final executable. +# +tryflag CFLAGS_AUTO -ffunction-sections +tryflag CFLAGS_AUTO -fdata-sections + +# # The GNU toolchain defaults to assuming unmarked files need an # executable stack, potentially exposing vulnerabilities in programs # linked with such object files. Fix this. -- 1.8.1.4
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