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Re: --as-needed and GNU ld linker

From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
To: Francesco Montorsi <f18m_cpp217828 at yahoo dot it>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 13:09:25 +1030
Subject: Re: --as-needed and GNU ld linker
References: <ejsdmi$9dl$1@sea.gmane.org> <200611261006.49103.vapier@gentoo.org> <456C3800.6090400@yahoo.it>

On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:22:08PM +0100, Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> Mike Frysinger ha scritto:
> >On Monday 20 November 2006 09:21, Francesco Montorsi wrote:
> >>However I wonder: why not make --as-needed the default behaviour of ld ?
> >
> >it'll break some properly written C++ applications
> sorry - which kind of apps? I thought this was a thing related only to 
> the ability of GNU ld to be able to walk down the tree of DSO 
> dependencies...

I imagine apps that dlopen might be affected.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

References:
- --as-needed and GNU ld linker
  - From: Francesco Montorsi
- Re: --as-needed and GNU ld linker
  - From: Mike Frysinger
- Re: --as-needed and GNU ld linker
  - From: Francesco Montorsi

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