Static linking on 64-bit PowerPC ELFv2

[Sebastian Huber <sebastian dot huber at embedded-brains dot de>]

Hello,

I recently added 64-bit PowerPC for RTEMS using the ELFv2 ABI. On RTEMS, 
the applications are statically linked with the operating system. I am 
now a bit surprised be a linker behaviour. I have a big library 
containing a network stack with many features. On other targets the 
linker just picks individual objects from the library to resolve the 
dependencies. However, on the 64-bit PowerPC the linker seems to pull in 
the complete library somehow. I see in the linker map file lines like this:

./libbsd.a(utils.c.18.o)      (print_string)

The applications has no direct or indirect references to print_string, 
however, the utils.c.18.o is still included in the link process. This in 
turn leads to unresolved references. Is this the expected behaviour on 
64-bit PowerPC?

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