tree 561576814b654df9dc4d88f7f3bf0b0189993e87
parent 19893ccf60355a63241052ec326b3a94a0bfeb9a
author Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> 1571605885 -0500
committer Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org> 1575449970 -0600

Reduce space lost to object alignment

Currently, sections within .text/.rodata/.data/.bss are emitted in the
order they are seen by the linker. This leads to wasted space, when a
section with a larger alignment follows one with a smaller alignment.
We can avoid this wasted space by sorting the sections.

To take full advantage of this, we must disable generation of common
symbols, so "common" data can be sorted along with the rest of .bss.

An example of the improvement, from `make DEBUG=1 PLAT=sun50i_a64 bl31`:
  .text   => no change
  .rodata => 16 bytes saved
  .data   => 11 bytes saved
  .bss    => 576 bytes saved

As a side effect, the addition of `-fno-common` in TF_CFLAGS makes it
easier to spot bugs in header files.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Holland <samuel@sholland.org>
Change-Id: I073630a9b0b84e7302a7a500d4bb4b547be01d51