Problem with glibc-2.1.3 and gcc-2.95.2 -ffunction-sections

[Ulrich Drepper]

greyham@research.canon.com.au (Graham Stoney) writes:

> I've just run into some grief cross-compiling a simple hello world program
> statically linking against glibc-2.1.3 cross-compiled using gcc-2.95.2 with
> -ffunction-sections & -fdata-sections and the binutils-000330 snapshot
> configured for a powerpc-linux target.

It is not necessary to use these options.  They are useful only for
statically linked applications and the sources are already structured
so that the least possible code is linked in the application.
Otherwise there wouldn't be thousands of files in the sources.

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