Re: --gc-section on elf/ia64

["H.J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:11:56PM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:58 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > is there any reason why ia64-linux doesn't support --gc-section ?
> 
> I don't recall a technical reason.  I think it is just some historical
> reasons.  ia64-linux development was done on a private branch at the
> same time that the --gc-section support went into the public tree, so
> the combination was probably never tested.  There is a general lack of
> people with time and interest in doing ia64 work, so lots of stuff never
> got done.  You could just try enabling the support and see what happens.
> If you file a bug report, HJ will probably look at it.

I don't remember the detail. I think it may have something to do
with ia64 linker relaxation or function pointer.

In any case, give it a try and file a bug report if it doesn't work.
I will see what I can do.

H.J.