Peter Vreman wrote:
>>Where can I read more about this new way of smartlinking?
>>
>>
>>>The debugger is broken because the new way of smartlinking rearranged the
>>>order of the sections, something that confuses gdb. Peter is searching
>>>for a
>>>way to hand the sections sorted to ld.
>>>
>>>(the new way of smartlinking kills .a files)
>
>
> * gcc -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
> * ld --gc-sections
> * objdump on a Kylix produced .o file
> * read about the old TPU format used by TP
>
Does it mean that executables could be much smaller ? What about later
reported problems with compatibility among smartlinking and stabs debug
info ? I thought that smartlinking cannot be combined with proper
debugging ?
This is vey interesting :-)
Regards
Boguslaw Brandys
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