------- Comment #11 from rguenther at suse dot de 2010-05-24 17:27 ------- Subject: Re: collect2 does not handle static libraries
On Mon, 24 May 2010, bmei at broadcom dot com wrote: > ------- Comment #10 from bmei at broadcom dot com 2010-05-24 13:29 ------- > annotating functions with externally_visible sounds a bit difficult to > maintain. Programmer needs to know whether a function is used outside of LTO > objects. This can change over time and extra efforts are needed to keep it > correct. It would be better if GCC can derive that info with -fwhole-program, > whether it is deal with LTO-object file only or LTO/Regular object files, > since > it should have all the symbol reference information by then. Indeed - at least if you are not dealing with building a shared library or a program which needs to expose symbols to plugins that are loaded at runtime. Of course at the moment - if at all - the symbol reference information is only available when using something like the linker-plugin. Richard. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=41376
