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.