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Re: PATCH: Implement --no-add-needed/--add-needed for ld
On Mon, Jul 19, 2004 at 05:37:26PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi H. J.
>
> >This is the complete patch. Any comments?
>
> Nope - it looks OK to me. Please consider this patch approved, although
> I do recommend adding an entry to the ld/NEWS file as well.
>
Like this? I also added --as-needed/--no-as-needed.
H.J.
---
2004-07-19 H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
* NEWS: Mention the new --add-needed/--no-add-needed and
--as-needed/--no-as-needed options.
--- ld/NEWS.new 2004-07-19 09:33:15.047272207 -0700
+++ ld/NEWS 2004-07-19 09:55:57.270004202 -0700
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
-*- text -*-
+* New ELF --add-needed/--no-add-needed options to control if a
+DT_NEEDED tag should be added when a shared library comes from
+DT_NEEDED tags.
+
* Support for the crx-elf target added.
* Support for the sh-symbianelf target added.
@@ -17,6 +21,9 @@
might also be used in the future to select similar tradeoffs.
Changes in 2.15:
+
+* New ELF --as-needed/--no-as-needed options to control if a DT_NEEDED
+tag should be added only when a shared library is referenced.
* New PE --large-address-aware option to indicate executables support virtual
addresses greater than 2 gigabytes.