-ffunction-sections, -ffdata-sections

[Phil Edwards]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:00:03AM -0800, Nathan Myers wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:33:28AM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 05:12:41PM -0500, AWLaFramboise@aol.com wrote:
> > > I notice libstdc++-v3 builds with -ffunction-sections and 
> > > -ffdata-sections if they are availible.  Why is this?
> > 
> > Because they're improvements.
> 
> Isn't it an improvement only for static linking?

I believe so.

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