Problems with the --gc-sections flags for ld

[Steven Stewart-Gallus]

Hello.

I am having troubles using the --gc-sections flag with ld. It causes a
bug in the compiler I use (see
https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/8647 .) It makes sense that it
would cause the Rust compiler to bug out because the Rust compiler is
still in 0.8. I would still like to diagnose, and fix the problem
though. Does anyone have any ideas on how Rust could miscommunicate
with ld, and cause it to strip out the metadata that Rust attaches to
a library?

Thank you very much,
Steven Stewart-Gallus