Re: -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections vs. string-inst

[Branko Čibej <branko dot cibej at hermes dot si>]

Loren James Rittle wrote:
> I believe this is exposing a bug in ld on my platform since if I
> remove -Wl,--gc-sections from mkcheck, all those tests run fine again.
> 
> My opinion only, but I don't think this should stop your patch going
> in since I have looked at the build logs closely and think it is doing
> the right thing.  The test should continue to include
> -Wl,--gc-sections in order to continue to flag the problem, but users
> that have a buggy ld (if my supposition is correct) can just avoid
> including that flag when they link.

Could we add an autoconf test to see if ld accepts --gc-secions at all?
I'm trying to get the library working on HP-UX 10.20, where GNU ld isn't
supported (but the native linker supposedly can take advantage of
-ffuncion_sections).

    Brane

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