linux-kernel - Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.17-rc1

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Message-ID: <CAMuHMdW-aaiPVp4wLJDBzE84C1PdS20y688ePWqafnSU=UOSYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 8 Aug 2018 14:26:43 +0200
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v4.17-rc1

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:32 PM Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> wrote:
> Also I haven't been seeing this in my local builds because I have:
>
> CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION=y
>
> So I guess we need to work out why that's interfering with section
> mismatch analysis.

One other common case of missing section mismatch warnings is when some
versions of the compiler inline the called function, while other versions don't.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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