MaskRay added a comment.

I wish we don't do this. 
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2022-March/119940.html (`RFC: GAS: 
Add option to generate unused section symbols`):

> This problem was fixed in the kernel (and backported by distros to their

kernels if binutils was updated); it's fairly simplistic changes.

> I don't see the need for returning (optionally) to the old behaviour again.  
> I mean, at the time, when 2.36 came out, sure, the patch might have made 
> sense, but now?

LLVM integrated assembler has stayed the current behavior for many years.
Having the feature would only benefit the next major release 15.0.0. Many 
releases before 15.0.0 are still supported, so some conditional compilation is 
needed, making the feature less useful.


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