Test case which displays problem found in libstdc++-v3 effort

Loren James Rittle rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com
Mon Jun 19 15:48:00 GMT 2000


Alan,

> It's a linker script bug.  The linker needs to be told to keep the
> .eh_frame contents.  Lack of any reference to symbols defined in a
> section normally causes --gc-sections to discard the section.

Thanks!  I can confirm that your patch fixes the test case when used
with mainline CVS gcc.

Regarding the NEWS file update, I can also confirm that section GC
appears to be working fine on my i386-elf platform.

Regards,
Loren


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