From: Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@gmail.com>
To: Yuri Kanivetsky <yuri.kanivetsky@gmail.com>
Cc: "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Is --as-needed the default these days?
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:23:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH6eHdQ6i-7a7tCH3DgczS5gJUe1_6sASZiaVs5asB3ZFt3yXg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMhVC3Z0ys9YoDG8FD5qq35_rSN-RY-vxnAS725DoB9hZb6B8w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 24 Mar 2024, 18:01 Yuri Kanivetsky via Gcc, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It looks like somewhere between gcc-5.3.0 and gcc-6.2.1 --as-needed
> became the default:
>
> https://gist.github.com/x-yuri/1b4c19891be50b2b8801689de1487009
>
> In other words it looks like on Alpine Linux 3.4 -lintl always adds
> libintl, on >= 3.5 only if some of its symbols are really needed.
>
> Can you possibly give a link to the commit or a changelog entry?
>
That's a linker option, and the linker is not part of GCC. Any change in
linker behaviour is not because of a change in GCC.
The GNU linker can be configured to default to --as-needed or not, and
different distros use different defaults.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-24 18:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-24 18:00 Yuri Kanivetsky
2024-03-24 18:23 ` Jonathan Wakely [this message]
2024-03-24 18:52 ` Yuri Kanivetsky
2024-03-24 19:01 ` Andrew Pinski
2024-03-24 19:28 ` Yuri Kanivetsky
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