On R, 2008-05-30 at 20:20 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 30 May 2008 21:13:32 +0200
> Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o> wrote:
> > Talk to the upstream about this, probably getting a satisfying
> > solution isn't that difficult.
> 
> The solution is to use --as-needed in the same way that -ffast-math is
> used: only with applications specifically designed to support it.

You mean everything but paludis?

Doesn't your grand plan include supporting Prefix and Interix with PE
binaries and so on?

I know projects that need to work around static initialization not being
reliable - they only happen to have done that for other reasons (such as
Windows PE format, iirc) years before --as-needed was implemented for
binutils.
Standards is one thing - reality is something quite different.
The reality is that everything designed to work everywhere is just
mighty happy with --as-needed and lots of benefits to gain from it.

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