From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
Cc: binutils@sources.redhat.com, dan@wespot.com
Subject: Re: Optimised output from ld
Date: Fri, 09 May 2003 22:23:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3el377o9s.fsf@gossamer.airs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3n0hv7on1.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com> writes:
> Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:58:06AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > > --gc-sections is not supported in conjunction with -r. I'm not sure
> > > why, myself.
> >
> > (1) There is no entry point to begin keeping sections.
> > (2) It is not known what symbols the runtime will refer to.
>
> I suppose it would be possible to require explicit -U options when
> using --gc-sections with -r, and use that set of symbols as the root.
> That might be useful for embedded systems which work with relocateable
> object files. If anybody cares enough to implement it.
Sorry, of course I mean -u (--undefined) options.
Ian
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-09 22:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-09 8:51 Dan Hovang
2003-05-09 8:58 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-05-09 22:12 ` Richard Henderson
2003-05-09 22:15 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2003-05-09 22:23 ` Ian Lance Taylor [this message]
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