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Re: ARM testsuite failures...
- To: scottb at netwinder dot org
- Subject: Re: ARM testsuite failures...
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 15:19:01 +0100
- CC: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-to: nickc at cygnus dot co dot uk
Hi Scott,
: I cannot find any documentation on what --gc-sections is supposed to
: do.
From ld/ld.texinfo:
@itemx --gc-sections
Enable garbage collection of unused input sections. It is ignored
on targets that do not support this option. This option is not
compatible with @samp{-r}, nor should it be used with dynamic
linking. The default behaviour (of not performing this garbage
collection) can be restored by specifying @samp{--no-gc-sections} on
the command line.
: Should this test even be run for targets arm*-unknown-linux-gnu?
I don't see why not. This is a test of the compiler and linker and it
is not OS specific. (It is file format specific, though. It only
works for ELF. But arm-linux uses ELF doesn't it ? )
However the failure of selective6 has been with use for some time. I
belive that Catherine had a fix for it though, so maybe she can
comment.
Cheers
Nick