On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:59:18PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > On 08.07.2010 01:42, brian m. carlson wrote: > >Package: gcc-4.4 > >Version: 4.4.4-6 > >Severity: wishlist > > > >Because the ELF ABI for hppa requires relative jumps which are limited > >to 17 bits[0], programs frequently require the use of > >-ffunction-sections. It would be preferable if (on hppa or otherwise) > >-ffunction-sections were implied by -fPIC when otherwise gcc would > >generate text sections that are too large. After all, there's really no > >reason to generate .o files that are, for all practical purposes, > >useless. It would also make numerous package maintainers and hppa > >porters very happy, I suspect. > > > >[0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558999#15 > > as this specific example shows, -ffunction-sections isn't enough, > but -mlong-calls is needed.
In that particular instance -mlong-calls is needed, but in the general case it appears not to be, judging from the numerous cases where only -ffunction-sections (and not -mlong-calls) is in use already in the archive. For example, #160538. My wishlist request still stands. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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