gc-section
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@mvista.com
Mon Mar 18 16:46:00 GMT 2002
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:55:21AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > Is this 'drop' the only problem one will come across if one were to have GC
> > work with shared libraries ?
>
> You would also need to traverse all dynamic symbols the library
> exports, and ensure that you don't drop their sections. The library
> itself may not reference all of it's symbols.
Is gc-sections even generally feasible in a dynamically linked binary?
Some could be provided for the use of a dlopen'd library, for instance.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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