[Bug gold/18288] linker -s output suboptimal

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18288



--- Comment #11 from H.J. Lu <hjl.tools at gmail dot com> ---

(In reply to address@hidden from comment #10)



> I installed ld and gold from master (commit 8900d71e3880)

> 

> After compiling with ld (master) the resulting binary is 471 648 bytes and

> strip does not change its size.  Doing readelf --all on the unstripped and

> stripped binary has this diffs:



So ld is OK.



> --- stripped  2015-04-23 13:36:57.879247346 +0000

> +++ unstripped        2015-04-23 13:36:49.264247644 +0000

> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@

>    [ 8] .rela.dyn         RELA             0000000000403aa0  00003aa0

>         00000000000000c0  0000000000000018   A       4     0     8

>    [ 9] .rela.plt         RELA             0000000000403b60  00003b60

> -       0000000000001ff8  0000000000000018  AI       4    11     8

> +       0000000000001ff8  0000000000000018  AI       4    23     8

>    [10] .init             PROGBITS         0000000000405b58  00005b58

>         0000000000000024  0000000000000000  AX       0     0     4

>    [11] .plt              PROGBITS         0000000000405b80  00005b80



I will take a look at this.



> Using gold from master produces binary of size 475 880 bytes -> suboptimal

> size.  The size is the same, when I use gold 2.25/1.11

> 



So gold has the size issue, not ld.  Is this correct?



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