dead function elimination

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jimmy,

> If i understand things correctly, there is a restriction on 
> '--gc-sections' that it doesn't work if the link is dynamic. What if my 
> scenario is like this:
> 
>     libsomething.a - some static library built with -ffunction-sections 
> & -fdata-sections
> 
>     src.o - my source code also built with -ffucntion-sections
> 
> final step:
> 
>     ld -o exec --gc-sections src.o -lsomething
> 
> In the above step, ld simply says
> 
> '/usr/bin/ld: Warning: gc-sections option ignored'

Hmm, interesting.  I had thought that this would work.  I will have to 
look into it when I get from vacation.  Are you using the most up to 
date version of the linker sources ?

Cheers
   Nick