[PATCH] More aggressive --gc-sections

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:51:26AM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote:
> > No.  Neither info->relocatable nor info->emitrelocations are necessarily
> > set.  You want to add info->shared to the following.  Patch OK for
> > mainline binutils with that change.
> 
> Ah! Ok, thanks for the clarification.  And the approval.

I decided to approve the patch because it clearly doesn't break
anything, and it's a step in the right direction.  Further refinements
may be necessary..

> When (if) the GCC part is accepted, do you want me to write C++ testcases for 
> this?

Yes please.

> (I presume you noticed the 2 
> failures with GCC mainline because of the now dead -fvtable-gc).

Yes, I have.  There are many other failures like this, especially on
non-ELF platforms, where a failure isn't really showing a problem with
the tool but rather with the test.

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre