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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Cc: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>,  GNU Binutils
 <binutils@sourceware.org>,  "Jose E. Marchesi" <jemarch@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: reducing number of relocations
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X-Yow: Look DEEP into the OPENINGS!!  Do you see any ELVES or EDSELS...
 or a HIGHBALL??...
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:25:15 +0200
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On Apr 15 2020, Bruno Haible wrote:

> $ mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-5 -O2 -c -Wall foo.c -fsection-anchors
> $ mips64-linux-gnuabi64-readelf -r foo.o
>
> shows as many relocations as
>
> $ mips64-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-5 -O2 -c -Wall foo.c
> $ mips64-linux-gnuabi64-readelf -r foo.o

You need to compare fully linked objects.

Andreas.

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