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Re: Huge binaries?
>>>>> Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com> writes:
> Jason Merrill <jason@cygnus.com> writes:
>> Yep. Would be nice if someone in binutils-land would fix these problems so
>> that --gc-sections could be useful on native targets...
> What are the actual problems. I've not really followed this thread
> much, sorry. Is there a simple test case?
At one point, if you tried to use --gc-sections without -static, even for
'int main(){}', it produced an executable which segfaulted, probably
because it was throwing away information needed by the dynamic loader. I
think that since then it's just been disabled for Linux, but I'm not sure.
Jason