RFH: libgcc_s.so being unnecessarily linked for mipsel-linux crosscompiler...

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:39:57PM -0700, David Daney wrote:
> It seems that the linker thinks that any shared object that references 
> the magic _gp_disp symbol actually provides it.  Since all mips objects 
> reference _gp_disp, ld thinks that all shared objects are required to 
> resolve all the other _gp_disp references.  This causes all shared 
> objects specified with --as-needed to be deemed needed and get a 
> DT_NEEDED entry.
> 
> The linker automagically resolves _gp_disp so this symbol should not 
> cause a shared library to be needed.
> 
> I hope that makes at least a little sense.
> 
> I suspect that the problem is mips specific as _gp_disp handling is mips 
> specific.

Yes, you're probably right.  I thought this sounded familiar, but
couldn't find any references.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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