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Re: --as-needed and GNU ld linker

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Cc: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>, ciaranm at ciaranm dot org
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:44:27 -0500
Subject: Re: --as-needed and GNU ld linker
References: <ejsdmi$9dl$1@sea.gmane.org> <200611261006.49103.vapier@gentoo.org> <20061127220905.GJ31989@basalt.office.altlinux.org>

On Monday 27 November 2006 17:09, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:06:48AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > 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
>
> Is there any examples of such applications?

the issue was brought to the attention of the Gentoo devs by Ciaran McCreesh 
as it broke a project he works on ... he really gets his rocks off writing OO 
code with C++ ;)

i'll post the link to his blog entry rather than just copying and pasting so i 
dont have to screw with formatting:
http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=13
-mike

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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: Dmitry V. Levin

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