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Does gold support deadcode elimination on relocatable files

Neo Jia neojia@gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 01:12:00 GMT 2008 
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
>> Just wondering if the current gold support deadcode elimination with
>> -r option. If not, any plan on that?
>
> There is work underway to do deadcode elimination, but not during a
> relocatable link.

Do we have any plan for that? If not, I would like to take a look.

>
>> BTW, I got a missing header file when build the gold from CVS.
>>
>> options.cc:33:27: error: ../bfd/bfdver.h: No such file or directory
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> This is a generated file; try building binutils before building gold.

The problem is fixed.

Thanks,
Neo

>
> -cary
>



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