"Santiago M. Mola" <coldwind@g.o> writes:

> --as-needed breaking legitimate code is a problem, though. I wonder if
> we have that kind of code in any application in the tree and if we
> have some way to detect it.

You could be looking for code not supposed to work under Solaris or
Windows, as the --as-needed behaviour behaves a lot like the standard
Sun linker and the forced behaviour of the PE executable format.

The only thing that can be broken by using --as-needed is code that
assumes the order in calling the .init sections of a set of shared
objects. Such an order is not only changed by --as-needed usage but by
any other change in the loading mechanism. It is strictly related to
glibc at this point as far as I can tell.

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