From Rich Felker:
By default, modern GCC generates DWARF2 debug/unwind tables in the
.eh_frame section of the object files/binaries. This adds significant
bloat (as much as 15%) to the size of the busybox binary, including
the portion mapped/loaded into memory at runtime (possibly a big issue
for NOMMU targets), and the section is not strippable with the strip
command due to being part of the loaded program text.
I've since done some further checking - both testing and asking the
GCC developers about it - and it seems the solution is to add to the
CFLAGS -fno-unwind-tables and -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables. If
debugging is disabled, this will prevent GCC from outputting DWARF2
tables entirely. But since busybox builds with -g by default, the
interesting case is what happens then. I originally thought these
options would break debugging, but they don't; instead, they tell GCC
to output the DWARF2 tables in the .debug_frame section instead of
the newish .eh_frame section (used for exception handling). With these
options added, busybox_unstripped is still fully debuggable, and the
final busybox binary loses the 15% bloat factor from the DWARF2
tables.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
We pass strings to printf directly a lot. Some distros enable some flags
in their gcc by default like -Wformat-security. With these two things, we
end up with a lot of build warnings like so:
loginutils/chpasswd.c:42:3: warning: format not a string literal and
no format arguments [-Wformat-security]
But we don't care. Our focus is first and foremost on size, so adding a
lot of dummy calls like:
- printf(some_constant_string);
+ printf("%s", some_constant_string);
is pointless bloat.
Disable this warning flag if the compiler supports it.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Existing copyright notice for binary would need to be longer to achieve
optimal accuracy. This compromise punts to the source for full notices,
but does note the years of the copyrights and that there are many authors,
all licensing under GPLv2.
Signed-off-by: Bradley M. Kuhn <bkuhn@ebb.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Sebro <tony@sfconservancy.org>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
The fbset utility would not respect "rgba" config entries in
the fb.modes file such as this (for the ARM Integrator/CP):
mode "640x480-60-clcd"
# D: 25.175 MHz, H: 31.469 kHz, V: 59.94 Hz
geometry 640 480 640 480 16
timings 39722 48 16 33 10 96 2
rgba 5/10,5/5,5/0,1/15
endmode
This is important especially for this ARGB5551 device which
is hopeless to configure otherwise. I noticed this lacking
feature after the TI "fbtest" program managed to set up the
the colormode correctly.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
This patch adds a missing LID0 switch definition.
Without it, closing the notebook lid is not detected by acpid.
Signed-off-by: Eric Martin <eric.martin@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
We use functions from sys/resource.h in misc applets, but don't include
the header. This breaks building with newer glibc versions, so add the
include where needed.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
While at it, fix filename order and free the list of names.
function old new delta
llist_rev - 21 +21
get_header_tar 1733 1741 +8
unpack_package 587 585 -2
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(add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 29/-2) Total: 27 bytes
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Of course busybox cannot be used on Darwin (Mac OS X), but it can be
cross-compiled for Linux there. Cross-compilation still requires kconfig
to be built as native host tool.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard@bwalle.de>
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
