X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f In-Reply-To: <46062862.3090804@iki.fi> Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of Binutils 2.17 uploaded To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 7.0.2 September 26, 2006 Message-ID: From: Gordon DOT Schumacher AT seagate DOT com Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:50:28 -0600 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on SV-GW1/Seagate Internet(Release 7.0.1 HF29|March 07, 2006) at 03/26/2007 08:50:33 AM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Proofpoint-FWRule: outbound2 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=4.65.5502:2.3.11,1.2.37,4.0.164 definitions=2007-03-26_06:2007-03-24,2007-03-26,2007-03-26 signatures=0 Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk Andris Pavenis wrote on 03/25/2007 01:44:34 AM: # One problem with GCC-4.1.0 and later is that .bss section is incorrectly # included in executable in case of C++ programs, which unnecessarily # bloats executables. The problem is with use of compiler option # -fdata-sections when building libstdcxx.a. I tried to look a bit and # mess with generated assembler sources, but did not succeed to find a # reasonable solution. Maybe the best would be ugly workaround to update # linker script to put .bss.* in .data section instead of .bss. .bss.* is # only generated if -fdata-sections is being used, so little or not at all # harm is expected from such update. I'm going to accede to you here; I awill admit that I don't have a deep understanding of the linker map. Ut seems like one of those things I'll end up needing to understand someday, when I run into a problem that requires me to :)