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Re: openssh static size. and -ffunction-sections


On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:53:59PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
>Just a thought: was the openssl static libraries built
>with -ffunction-sections?
>
>If not, then that may be why the openssh static binaries where so big
>and so I think that -ffunction-sections should be mandatory for
>packagers, unless the libraries sources is one-function-per-file
>structured (which achieves the same thing).

Does the linker do the "right thing" when functions are in their
own sections?  I didn't know that.  I thought there was some other
linker switch available for accomplishing that.

I know that Microsoft's linker has a switch for this and I thought
that ld had something added relatively recently.

cgf


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