Optimised output from ld

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com> writes:

> On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 01:58:06AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > --gc-sections is not supported in conjunction with -r.  I'm not sure
> > why, myself.
> 
> (1) There is no entry point to begin keeping sections.
> (2) It is not known what symbols the runtime will refer to.

I suppose it would be possible to require explicit -U options when
using --gc-sections with -r, and use that set of symbols as the root.
That might be useful for embedded systems which work with relocateable
object files.  If anybody cares enough to implement it.

Ian