PR21294, Binary size regression on PPC embedded

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Tue Oct 3 04:42:00 GMT 2017


	PR 21294
	* NEWS: Note that defaulting to -z relro results in increased
	memory and disk size.

diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS
index bb5a62b..2445896 100644
--- a/ld/NEWS
+++ b/ld/NEWS
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ Changes in 2.27:
 
 * Add a configure option --enable-relro to decide whether -z relro should
   be enabled in ELF linker by default.  Default to yes for all Linux
-  targets except FRV, HPPA, IA64 and MIPS.
+  targets except FRV, HPPA, IA64 and MIPS.  Note that -z relro can increase
+  disk and memory size.
 
 * Support for -z noreloc-overflow in the x86-64 ELF linker to disable
   relocation overflow check.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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