---- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Faylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:58 PM Subject: Re: openssh static size. and -ffunction-sections
> 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 recall a thread recently when someone whinged about ld not grabbing single functions, and the answer was: use -ffunction-sections because _by design_ ld grabs whole sections at a time. Mind you I'm no expert on this, just raising the issue... I'll shutup now. Rob
