From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: jason@cygnus.com (Jason Merrill)
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Large code size?
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:46:00 -0000
Message-ID: <m3u2v9lejs.fsf@muc.de>
References: <199903242353.PAA02719.cygnus.egcs@atrus.synopsys.com> <E10PxHr-0001fO-00@roboto.devolution.com> <u9n212vswe.fsf@yorick.cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-03n/msg00818.html
Message-ID: <19990331234600.esYlTCOBdhksJpnsufZmUShEMCgX9q3Wj0qz1Ls-B20@z>

jason@cygnus.com (Jason Merrill) writes:

> >>>>> Joe Buck <jbuck@Synopsys.COM> writes:
> 
>  >> We built robotcom.so with the compiler flags:
>  >> 	g++ -O2 -funroll-loops -fno-exceptions -DLINUX_BETA -D_REENTRANT
>  >> and the linker flags:
>  >> 	cc -shared -nostartfiles -s -o robotcom.so ...
> 
>  > Hmm.  Does the gnu.linkonce trick work for shared libraries?
> 
> I would think so, but it certainly doesn't work if you don't use the GNU
> linker, and 'cc' isn't likely to.

On Linux cc is a link to gcc, and the gnu linker is the only linker.

Of course it is possible that he uses an outdated binutils version
that doesn't support it yet.

-Andi
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