From 986c78f448780feab4e97f7884c8e1949a848f65 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Angus Gratton <gus@projectgus.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:47:38 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] Compile with -ffunction-sectons -fdata-sections, link with
 -gc-sections

This seems to shrink code size by abou 3.5%. Not sure if there are any downsides.
---
 common.mk | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/common.mk b/common.mk
index 323d13d..3a0e691 100644
--- a/common.mk
+++ b/common.mk
@@ -94,9 +94,19 @@ OWN_LIBC ?= 1
 # Note: you will need a recent esp
 ENTRY_SYMBOL ?= call_user_start
 
+# Set this to zero if you don't want individual function & data sections
+# (some code may be slightly slower, linking will be slighty slower,
+# but compiled code size will come down a small amount.)
+SPLIT_SECTIONS ?= 1
+
 CFLAGS		= -Wall -Werror -Wl,-EL -nostdlib -mlongcalls -mtext-section-literals -std=gnu99 $(CPPFLAGS)
 LDFLAGS		= -nostdlib -Wl,--no-check-sections -Wl,-L$(BUILD_DIR)sdklib -Wl,-L$(ROOT)lib -u $(ENTRY_SYMBOL) -Wl,-static -Wl,-Map=build/${PROGRAM}.map $(EXTRA_LDFLAGS)
 
+ifeq ($(SPLIT_SECTIONS),1)
+  CFLAGS += -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
+  LDFLAGS += -Wl,-gc-sections
+endif
+
 ifeq ($(FLAVOR),debug)
     CFLAGS += -g -O0
     LDFLAGS += -g -O0