On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 02:53:59PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >Just a thought: was the openssl static libraries built >with -ffunction-sections? > >If not, then that may be why the openssh static binaries where so big >and so I think that -ffunction-sections should be mandatory for >packagers, unless the libraries sources is one-function-per-file >structured (which achieves the same thing).
Does the linker do the "right thing" when functions are in their own sections? I didn't know that. I thought there was some other linker switch available for accomplishing that. I know that Microsoft's linker has a switch for this and I thought that ld had something added relatively recently. cgf