--as-needed by default
Alan Modra
amodra@bigpond.net.au
Thu Mar 3 22:44:00 GMT 2005
On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 02:30:11PM +0000, Mike Hearn wrote:
> I'm wondering why the --as-needed ld option is not used by default.
Code supporting --as-needed is relatively new and quite complicated.
It is likely to have bugs. Also, some projects might rely on the
existing ld behaviour of always adding DT_NEEDED tags for shared
libraries.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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