[llvm] r234159 - Don't use -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections on debug builds.

David Blaikie dblaikie at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 07:47:38 PDT 2015


On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Rafael Espindola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Author: rafael
> Date: Mon Apr  6 09:34:43 2015
> New Revision: 234159
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=234159&view=rev
> Log:
> Don't use -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections on debug builds.
>

Thanks a bunch!


>
> Unfortunately, on ELF there is not used attribute on the .o files,
> so there is no easy way to keep the dump function alive.
>
> If we are not gcing, we may as well produce non gcable files and
> avoid the cost.
>
> Linking a debug clang now takes 18.856225992 seconds, before it
> took 21.206897447.
>
> I will try avoiding --gc-sections -O3 on a followup patch.
>
> Modified:
>     llvm/trunk/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake
>
> Modified: llvm/trunk/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake
> URL:
> http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/llvm/trunk/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake?rev=234159&r1=234158&r2=234159&view=diff
>
> ==============================================================================
> --- llvm/trunk/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake (original)
> +++ llvm/trunk/cmake/modules/HandleLLVMOptions.cmake Mon Apr  6 09:34:43
> 2015
> @@ -486,7 +486,8 @@ endif()
>  # But MinSizeRel seems to add that automatically, so maybe disable these
>  # flags instead if LLVM_NO_DEAD_STRIP is set.
>  if(NOT CYGWIN AND NOT WIN32)
> -  if(NOT ${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin")
> +  if(NOT ${CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME} MATCHES "Darwin" AND
> +     NOT uppercase_CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE STREQUAL "DEBUG")
>      check_c_compiler_flag("-Werror -fno-function-sections"
> C_SUPPORTS_FNO_FUNCTION_SECTIONS)
>      if (C_SUPPORTS_FNO_FUNCTION_SECTIONS)
>        # Don't add -ffunction-section if it can be disabled with
> -fno-function-sections.
>
>
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