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Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 12:54:01 +0200
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Date: 2012-04-21T12:54:01+02:00
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Le 21/04/2012 02:52, BrianG a �crit :
> Then, apparently, it doesn't support the stated "feature" of GNAT (the
> linker removing unused programs and data).  Is this a GNAT problem (as
> stated in the post I referenced), or a problem/limitation in DJGPP?  (Of
> course, I don't know what any of this has to do with Ada features.)

I think this is a current binutils linker limitation which does not
support --gc-sections option on pe-coff target. So nothing to do with
GCC or GNAT. AFAIK, there is some work to support this.

Pascal.

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