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Re: Help: can't rebuild binutils
- To: "John Breen" <jab3 at hotmail dot com>
- Subject: Re: Help: can't rebuild binutils
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 20:56:55 -0600
- cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19980914155301.27564.qmail@hotmail.com>you write:
> Since gcc is just calling HP's ld, why do I have to link with gcc? Is
> it automatically throwing in some linking options?
Because if you link with HP's cc or ld directly, then libgcc.a will not
be pulled in. gcc adds this automatically for you. global ctors/dtors
will also not fire if you link with HP's cc or HP's ld. EH probably
won't work either.
> 1. Why isn't binutils' ld supported on HP-UX?
Because nobody's written the code.
> 2. Why are my executable's sections reasonably close in size, but the
> executable files differ by more than 2.5x?
Probably debug symbols or you've got files which are statically linked.
> 3. How can I find out what routines are statically linked? I know this
> may be an HP-UX question, but I can't figure it out.
objdump -h
jeff