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--gc-sections ignored warning patch


On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:47:16AM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com> writes:
> 
> > 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.

Here's my first pass at adding warnings when gc-sections is
ignored.  I may have gotten a bit carried away.  Would people
prefer a single more generic warning message?

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante@visi.com

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