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RE: ld includes entire archive (.a) when compiling .elf file
- From: "Josh Keller" <jkeller at keytechinc dot com>
- To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot org>, "Reuben Johnston" <rjohnston at keytechinc dot com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 20:37:18 -0500
- Subject: RE: ld includes entire archive (.a) when compiling .elf file
Hehe, yeah, it made an empty binary. I will put in the appropriate switches and post my results.
-Josh
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Jacobowitz [mailto:drow@false.org]
Sent: Fri 3/10/2006 6:43 PM
To: Josh Keller
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org; Reuben Johnston
Subject: Re: ld includes entire archive (.a) when compiling .elf file
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 06:08:53PM -0500, Josh Keller wrote:
> How will specifying the start of execution with (-e) remove the uncalled
> functions and unused variables? Does the ld linker even have the
> capability to automatically remove uncalled functions without having to
> specify each used section? I'm sorry if I sound really confused, I'm
> pretty new to this. Thanks for your patience.
No, you need that to prevent the linker from removing everything.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery