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Re: [RFD] New binutil 'objsplit'
- From: "E. Weddington" <eric at ecentral dot com>
- To: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:11:04 -0600
- Subject: Re: [RFD] New binutil 'objsplit'
On 21 Apr 2004 at 12:12, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>> Well, for purposes of building libgcc.a, it would be *so* much simpler
> if it could be boiled down to
>
> ./xgcc -B./ -ffunction-sections -yada -yada libgcc2.c
> ar cr --split-object libgcc.a libgcc2.o
>
> or similar. But this would require us to (a) support
> -ffunction-sections on all targets, and (b) require binutils on all
> targets, neither of which things will ever happen
I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the arguments for either of these.
Could you explain a little further, why not (a), and if GCC is now requiring
GNU Make, why not, *at some point in the future*, (b)?
Thanks
Eric