* GNU g++ / AIX ld question
@ 2004-09-09 18:51 David Kramer
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From: David Kramer @ 2004-09-09 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
I have a two-fold problem at work, where I am trying to move the company's
AIX 5.2 xlC-compiled C++ application to gcc (note that I just can't get
binutils to work right, so I'm using the native linker).
1) The table of contents is > 64K, and according to their respective
documentations, all options that either make the TOC bigger in ld, or put
less in the TOC in gcc, make the program run slower. This is not
desirable, but not a show-stopper.
2) A library of ours (tccommon) that we are linking in has classes that
reference another class (status) in another library (tcdb). The
application I am trying to link requires some classes from tccommon, but
not any of the ones that require the status class. However, the linker is
complaining that the status class is missing (undefine symbols) anyway. I
thought they would have been garbage collected out.
The xlC compiler has an option, "-qfuncsect", which puts each function in
a separate csect. This seems equivalent to g++'s "-ffunction-sections".
The kicker is that xlC has an option "-qtwolink" to do a two-pass link to
eliminate any sections containing only unreferenced objects. That killed
both birds with two stones.
I can't seem to find a comparable g++ option to not link in objects that
are not referenced, and that means when I link my application against
tccommon, it's claiming that the status class methods are undefined, even
though nothing the application is using from tccommon uses the status
class.
Thanks in advance.
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* RE: GNU g++ / AIX ld question
2004-09-09 18:58 lrtaylor
@ 2004-09-09 19:09 ` David Kramer
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From: David Kramer @ 2004-09-09 19:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc-help
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 lrtaylor@micron.com wrote:
> Just a thought on this - there probably is a linker option (that is, for
> ld) for this. I would recommend taking a look at ld's command line
> options and pass the appropriate option to it though g++ using the -Wl
> option.
I looked pretty hard a few times, but could not find one.
Thanks anyway.
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* RE: GNU g++ / AIX ld question
@ 2004-09-09 18:58 lrtaylor
2004-09-09 19:09 ` David Kramer
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From: lrtaylor @ 2004-09-09 18:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: david, gcc-help
Just a thought on this - there probably is a linker option (that is, for
ld) for this. I would recommend taking a look at ld's command line
options and pass the appropriate option to it though g++ using the -Wl
option.
Thanks,
Lyle
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Subject: GNU g++ / AIX ld question
<SNIP>
I can't seem to find a comparable g++ option to not link in objects that
are not referenced, and that means when I link my application against
tccommon, it's claiming that the status class methods are undefined,
even
though nothing the application is using from tccommon uses the status
class.
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