--gc-sections and C library linkage issues (?)

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Thu Aug 24 18:23:00 GMT 2000


Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz@redhat.com> writes:

> Alan, I've cc'd you on this because you quickly fixed the previous 
> problem. Can you please look at this, too? It looks like the exact same 
> deal, ie something like this needs to be added to the linker script:
> 
> .__libc_subinit : { KEEP (*(.__libc_subinit)) }

We have several different sections like this.  You are fixing a
symptom.  IMO --gc-sections should not be used until it can be
properly implemented.

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