Re: Unomitted frame pointers

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at wasabisystems dot com>]

"Sam Lauber" <sam124@operamail.com> writes:

> How can the linker combine them? The _program_ is way outside GCC's
> control. The assembler and linker don't modify the generated
> assembly. Otherwise, BFD and binutils would become very twisted up,
> and thus make the assembler world on GCC diffrent than it is now.

In fact, when the same string appears in multiple object files, recent
version of the GNU linker will combine them.  Try it.  If you want to
figure out how it works, look closely at the generated assembly code
and at the linker source code.

When somebody with experience tells you that something is so, it
behooves to at least give it a try before you claim that it can not be
so.

Ian