Peter Dolding wrote: > Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >> "Peter Dolding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >>> Since test is in a different object file it gets completely skiped >>> from optimising even that it should be optimised out. >>> >> >> http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LTO_Driver >> >> Ian >> > Ok that is half my idea. Let it sort out at link stage. But that does > not cover like libc and dynamic dependencies.
And it can't, either, at least not on GNU/Linux. When a bug fix is imported into glibc, every user of glibc immediately benefits. That's one of the reasons we don't link statically on that system. This is far more important than the performance issue. Andrew.
