-ffunction-sections always on now?

Benjamin Kosnik bkoz@redhat.com
Mon Oct 1 22:05:00 GMT 2001


> If I understand the test correctly, it's just testing that the
> compiler accepts the option, not that the resulting executable
> works.  

Right.

> That's possibly a bogosity in GCC, because I only turned
> on named sections to get Dwarf 2 sections of fixed names known
> to work with Mach-O, but that's taken to mean that the function
> section option works too, which doesn't really follow.

Hmm. Perhaps the configure test should be changed? 

> If nothing else, the 16-char limit on Mach-O sections shoves
                       ^^^^^^
Ouch! 

Toto, we are not in "C" anymore....


-benjamin



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