--gc-section on elf/ia64
H.J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Thu Jul 12 00:02:00 GMT 2007
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 04:11:56PM -0700, Jim Wilson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:58 +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > is there any reason why ia64-linux doesn't support --gc-section ?
>
> I don't recall a technical reason. I think it is just some historical
> reasons. ia64-linux development was done on a private branch at the
> same time that the --gc-section support went into the public tree, so
> the combination was probably never tested. There is a general lack of
> people with time and interest in doing ia64 work, so lots of stuff never
> got done. You could just try enabling the support and see what happens.
> If you file a bug report, HJ will probably look at it.
I don't remember the detail. I think it may have something to do
with ia64 linker relaxation or function pointer.
In any case, give it a try and file a bug report if it doesn't work.
I will see what I can do.
H.J.
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