"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote, > > | Surely the executable itself is only linked with the > > | functions that are actually used by the program? > > > > AFAIUI the GNU linker is not clever enough to remove junk > > on a per-function basis, only on a per-object basis. This is > > why we do object-splitting -- by breaking libraries up into > > thousands of .o files before rolling them into a .a, the > > effectiveness of what GNU ld can do is enhanced. > > > > Perhaps more recent GNU ld's do better on some platforms? > > I have a vague recollection of some -gc-sections flag. > > Yup, but it needs compiler support. The idea is to get the compiler to > put each function in its own section, then the linker removes unused > sections from the linked image.
Sounds much better than the mess that -split-objs produces on the harddisk. Cheers, Manuel _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users