[RFD] New binutil 'objsplit'

[E. Weddington]

On 21 Apr 2004 at 12:12, Zack Weinberg wrote:

>> 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

I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with the arguments for either of these.

Could you explain a little further, why not (a), and if GCC is now requiring 
GNU Make, why not, *at some point in the future*, (b)?

Thanks
Eric