[Toybox] imgtec patch: Fix static linkage of toybox binary.

[Rob Landley]

On 05/10/2016 12:28 AM, enh wrote:
> On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 8:45 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>>> (2) does not seem to have any advantage over (1). Would (1) be acceptable?
>>
>> Is __builtin_frame_pointer mentioned in C99? Is it portable to
>> clang/llvm, and cfront/libfirm or if http://pcc.ludd.ltu.se/ revives or
>> http://landley.net/qcc happens...?
>>
>> If not, lib/portability.* is the place #ifdef THINGY && THINGY code
>> blocks for envrionment-specific stuff.
> 
> i think YAGNI... anyone running SafeStack is probably LP64 and
> probably better off just using NORECURSE (with the small fix to not
> maintain toys.stacktop).

Until toysh, it's largely moot. The stuff that's likely to use it (mount
calling losetup, tar calling gzip, etc) doesn't launch a lot of child
instances so the exec overhead is usually a rounding error.

It's shell scripts launching hundreds of subcommands that would really care.

Rob