On Mon, 15 May 2017, fredvs wrote:
http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
Ha, news, finally.
Huh, did you read my post ?
I did.
I responded to the statement that fpc libraries are big and "unusable".
It talk about smartlinking of libraries that does not work.
After lot of fight, there is a solution: using -*-gc-sections*.
And the question was :
/Why FPC does not provide --gc-sections to the linker with the -XX paramer
for libraries ? (Bug ?) /
Not providing an option is not a bug.
At best, providing this option is a feature request on your part.
Why it does not provide the option?
For the same reason that it doesn't strip binaries by default, I suppose.
Or maybe this option didn't exist when the FPC library support was
implemented ? Maybe there are even other reasons I am not aware of.
But even when you do the --gc-sections, your library will still be bigger than
corresponding C libraries for the reasons I outlined in my initial response.
Michael.
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