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Re: gc-section

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: pon at intermate dot com, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 19:46:00 -0500
Subject: Re: gc-section
References: <OF41E9F459.796D7FB5-ONC1256B80.0038B62C@lci-intermedium.dk> <20020319002521.GG1089@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 10:55:21AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > Is this 'drop' the only problem one will come across if one were to have GC
> > work with shared libraries ?
> 
> You would also need to traverse all dynamic symbols the library
> exports, and ensure that you don't drop their sections.  The library
> itself may not reference all of it's symbols.

Is gc-sections even generally feasible in a dynamically linked binary? 
Some could be provided for the use of a dlopen'd library, for instance.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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