Does -gc-section (garbage collection) works only with static linking ?

Valery Pykhtin pykhtin@prosoft.ural.ru
Wed Sep 8 08:32:00 GMT 2004


Hi Nick,

> Your code could call a dynamic library function and pass to that 
> function a pointer to another function inside your application.  This 
> second function does not have to be exported, since it is your code that 
> computes its address, but nevertheless the function can be accessed from 
> outside of your code.  Think of the atexit() function supported by the C 
> library as an example of this.

Now I understand, thank you :)

Best regards,
Valery



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