commit dccc537a7243d784e0b8b81ce1634e385c3b048b
author Andrew Thoelke <andrew.thoelke@arm.com> Tue Mar 18 07:13:52 2014 +0000
committer Andrew Thoelke <andrew.thoelke@arm.com> Wed Mar 26 21:54:37 2014 +0000
tree ffe79e5b2d764b904dd7253df1e9983da5e6b132
parent 2eb01d341ff14c003d381cde97fbccdab4737afd

Use --gc-sections during link

All common functions are being built into all binary images,
whether or not they are actually used. This change enables the
use of -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and --gc-sections
in the compiler and linker to remove unused code and data from
the images.

Change-Id: Ia9f78c01054ac4fa15d145af38b88a0d6fb7d409

bl31/bl31.ld.S

diff --git a/bl31/bl31.ld.S b/bl31/bl31.ld.S
index 844f169..1b818f5 100644
--- a/bl31/bl31.ld.S
+++ b/bl31/bl31.ld.S
@@ -48,14 +48,14 @@
 
     ro . : {
         __RO_START__ = .;
-        *bl31_entrypoint.o(.text)
-        *(.text)
+        *bl31_entrypoint.o(.text*)
+        *(.text*)
         *(.rodata*)
 
-        /* Ensure 8-byte alignment for descriptors */
+        /* Ensure 8-byte alignment for descriptors and ensure inclusion */
         . = ALIGN(8);
         __RT_SVC_DESCS_START__ = .;
-        *(rt_svc_descs)
+        KEEP(*(rt_svc_descs))
         __RT_SVC_DESCS_END__ = .;
 
         *(.vectors)
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 
     .data . : {
         __DATA_START__ = .;
-        *(.data)
+        *(.data*)
         __DATA_END__ = .;
     } >RAM
 
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
      */
     .bss : ALIGN(16) {
         __BSS_START__ = .;
-        *(.bss)
+        *(.bss*)
         *(COMMON)
         __BSS_END__ = .;
     } >RAM