https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24836
--- Comment #11 from crusader.mike at gmail dot com --- > ... it would be possible ... a lot of work for little gain Well, in my case (which I believe isn't very rare) majority of functionality is locked in a few large static libs (of dubious quality) and all minor tools link them and (due to various effects) end up having dummy dependencies, forcing me to package unnecessary libs in deliverables (plus some waste at runtime). Fixing this is not huge, but nice to have. In terms of work -- what about associating a counter with every lib, which goes up for every resolved symbol and goes down for every symbol marked for garbage collection? At the end -- remove all DT_NEEDED entries with counter at 0. Well, (since I am ignorant wrt ld implementation) it is probably a dumb idea, so I 'll leave this problem with those who know what they are doing. > ... to do better than just removing DT_NEEDED entries would basically require > iterating the link What do you mean by "to do better"? > ... that should help explain the various destructor ... Thank you, Alan. Now it makes sense. Can you comment on #7? I.e. why elf executable ends up having large .dynsym table? is there a way to to trim it down only to stuff used by it's shared libs? Thank you. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
