section-gc and gcj

Fri Jan 4 01:46:00 GMT 2002

On Thu, 2002年01月03日 at 22:08, Adam Megacz wrote:
> - Do -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections work with gcj?

I tried this a few weeks ago on x86 Linux and it worked fine.
> - If the above works, and I manually strip the symbols of functions I
> know I won't use, and I enable section-gc in the linker, will the
> linker properly drop such functions?

I believe so.
> - (kinda OT) does anybody know if the latest mingw ld offers
> section-gc? 

Section GC has been part of GNU ld for some time now (on the order of
years now). Does mingw ld == GNU ld? I don't know if section GC works
for non-ELF targets (which I assume mingw is).
AG