From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 21 17: 7:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CE9A37B421 for ; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:07:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f7M075X22329; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.5/8.11.0) id f7M074t05748; Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:07:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 17:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200108220007.f7M074t05748@vashon.polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: dan@langille.org Subject: Re: ld -X <== important or not? In-Reply-To: <3B7FE5C2.18273.16C3288@localhost> References: <3B7FE5C2.18273.16C3288@localhost> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <3B7FE5C2.18273.16C3288@localhost>, Dan Langille wrote: > How important is the -X option on ld? > > -X Delete all temporary local symbols. For most tar- > gets, this is all local symbols whose names begin > with `L'. > > I ask because I'm porting something to Solaris and it seems rather > odd that the solaris ld doesn't have this option. It's not important. It just makes the output file smaller. I wouldn't be surprised if the Solaris linker did this by default. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message