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Re: H8 support for --gc-sections ?
> > I know the docs say the option is simply ignored if it's not
> > supported, but a warning from the linker sure would have saved
> > me a lot of hours trying to figure out what I was doing wrong.
>
> Probably a good idea. The place to patch is elf_gc_sections() in
> bfd/elflink.h.
I'll look at doing that.
> > Better yet would be to add support for garbage collection for
> > the H8. Is there some fundamental technical reason why it's
> > not supported, or is it a matter than nobody has cared enough
> > to just do it?
>
> Nobody has cared enough to do it.
>
> It shouldn't be too hard to add, assuming that you are using ELF.
Yes, I'm using ELF.
> Follow the examples provided by other backends.
I think I'm going to take a stab at it.
I presume the maintainers prefer patches against the current
CVS tree rather than the last release?
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Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com