* --gc-section on elf/ia64
@ 2007-07-10 13:51 Tristan Gingold
2007-07-11 23:44 ` Jim Wilson
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From: Tristan Gingold @ 2007-07-10 13:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: binutils
Hi,
is there any reason why ia64-linux doesn't support --gc-section ?
TIA,
Tristan.
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* Re: --gc-section on elf/ia64
2007-07-10 13:51 --gc-section on elf/ia64 Tristan Gingold
@ 2007-07-11 23:44 ` Jim Wilson
2007-07-12 0:02 ` H.J. Lu
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From: Jim Wilson @ 2007-07-11 23:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Tristan Gingold; +Cc: binutils
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:58 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> is there any reason why ia64-linux doesn't support --gc-section ?
I don't recall a technical reason. I think it is just some historical
reasons. ia64-linux development was done on a private branch at the
same time that the --gc-section support went into the public tree, so
the combination was probably never tested. There is a general lack of
people with time and interest in doing ia64 work, so lots of stuff never
got done. You could just try enabling the support and see what happens.
If you file a bug report, HJ will probably look at it.
--
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.specifix.com
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* Re: --gc-section on elf/ia64
2007-07-11 23:44 ` Jim Wilson
@ 2007-07-12 0:02 ` H.J. Lu
2007-07-12 11:00 ` Tristan Gingold
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From: H.J. Lu @ 2007-07-12 0:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jim Wilson; +Cc: Tristan Gingold, binutils
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:11:56PM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:58 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > is there any reason why ia64-linux doesn't support --gc-section ?
>
> I don't recall a technical reason. I think it is just some historical
> reasons. ia64-linux development was done on a private branch at the
> same time that the --gc-section support went into the public tree, so
> the combination was probably never tested. There is a general lack of
> people with time and interest in doing ia64 work, so lots of stuff never
> got done. You could just try enabling the support and see what happens.
> If you file a bug report, HJ will probably look at it.
I don't remember the detail. I think it may have something to do
with ia64 linker relaxation or function pointer.
In any case, give it a try and file a bug report if it doesn't work.
I will see what I can do.
H.J.
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* Re: --gc-section on elf/ia64
2007-07-12 0:02 ` H.J. Lu
@ 2007-07-12 11:00 ` Tristan Gingold
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Tristan Gingold @ 2007-07-12 11:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: H.J. Lu; +Cc: Jim Wilson, binutils
On Jul 12, 2007, at 1:44 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:11:56PM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:58 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>>> is there any reason why ia64-linux doesn't support --gc-section ?
>>
>> I don't recall a technical reason. I think it is just some
>> historical
>> reasons. ia64-linux development was done on a private branch at the
>> same time that the --gc-section support went into the public tree, so
>> the combination was probably never tested. There is a general
>> lack of
>> people with time and interest in doing ia64 work, so lots of stuff
>> never
>> got done. You could just try enabling the support and see what
>> happens.
>> If you file a bug report, HJ will probably look at it.
>
> I don't remember the detail. I think it may have something to do
> with ia64 linker relaxation or function pointer.
>
> In any case, give it a try and file a bug report if it doesn't work.
> I will see what I can do.
Thanks for the info. I will make the try ASAP (which doesn't mean now!)
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