ld --gc-sections failures

[Alan Modra]

On Thu, 27 Jan 2000, H . J . Lu wrote:

> I thought it was fixed a few months ago. I haven't seen any failures
> for quite a while. Could you please try my binutils at
> 
> ftp://ftp.valinux.com/pub/support/hjl/binutils

Running /usr/src/hjl-2.9.5.0.24/ld/testsuite/ld-selective/selective.exp ...
FAIL: selective4

You need a fairly recent gcc that supports -ffunction-sections
-fdata-sections -fvtable-gc -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti, otherwise these
tests aren't even run.  gcc-2.7.2 is too old.