Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
Posted Sep 5, 2014 7:54 UTC (Fri) by mjthayer (guest, #39183)In reply to: Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems by nix
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Yes, I can see that. Is there any reason though (I am asking you as you know considerably more about the subject than I do) why the linker would not be able to merge ELF sections during the final link if they were not yet relocated?
Posted Sep 8, 2014 15:42 UTC (Mon)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Poettering: Revisiting how we put together Linux systems
No reason that I can see (though obviously this must be an optional behaviour: some programs would really *want* one section per function, unlike people who are just using it for GCing.)