[RFD] New binutil 'objsplit'

[Zack Weinberg]

"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:

>   Yep, I'm largely in agreement with you that extending the proper linker
> would be the best fix for garbage collecting.  But, as you say, I've already
> done it.  So perhaps the question should be:
>
>   Can anyone think of any *other* reason why someone might want to separate
> out sections into separate files ?

Well, for purposes of building libgcc.a, it would be *so* much simpler
if it could be boiled down to

./xgcc -B./ -ffunction-sections -yada -yada libgcc2.c
ar cr --split-object libgcc.a libgcc2.o

or similar.  But this would require us to (a) support
-ffunction-sections on all targets, and (b) require binutils on all
targets, neither of which things will ever happen; or else we would
have to keep all the current goo around, so nothing gets simpler.

So, merely wishful thinking on my part.

zw