[PATCH] More aggressive --gc-sections

law@redhat.com law@redhat.com
Thu Mar 18 17:27:00 GMT 2004


In message <m3ptbagjot.fsf@gossamer.airs.com>, Ian Lance Taylor writes:
 >law@redhat.com writes:
 >
 >> If you wanted to improve the long term maintainability of this code as
 >> well as its compatibility with non-GC'd code you could put the special
 >> GC related relocations into their own special section from the main
 >> relocations.
 >
 >To clarify: don't use ELF relocations at all.  Instead, put the
 >required information in a special section.  That way the information
 >can be backend-independent.  (You can use the ELF relocation format if
 >you like, but something other format would probably be fine too).
Precisely. Thanks for clarifying.
jeff




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