Re: good news and bad news

[Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>]

> > Please disable all the flags related to that, rebuild, and try again. I 
> > suspect that's the problem.
> 
> It was.  Now I'm seeing problems with static executables, but that's a
> gcc problem rather than a v3 problem.

cool

> > As --gc-sections is broken anyway, even on linux, I'm thinking of 
> > disabling it.
> 
> Now that I think about it...  Does garbage collecting the sections in a
> library at all make sense?  Creating data/function sections is way cool,
> since it opens up all those possibilities to the user's executables.
> But even if --gc-sections were working perfectly, how do we tell which
> parts of a /library/ never get called?

yes. it makes sense. Current technology won't work, but I have hope for
the future. 

There was some discussion of this on the binutils list between Ulrich,
Alan Molda, and I within the last two months. You might check that.

-benjamin