On Fri, 14 Nov 2025 11:25:05 GMT, Matthias Baesken <[email protected]> wrote:
> The dead_strip linker option on macOS removes functions and data that are > unreachable by the entry point or exported symbols. > Setting it can reduce the size of some binaries we generate quite a lot, for > example (product build, Xcode 15 is used) : > (before -> after setting the option) > > 1.4M -> 1.1M images/jdk/lib/libfontmanager.dylib > 264K -> 248K images/jdk/lib/libjavajpeg.dylib > 152K -> 132K images/jdk/lib/libjli.dylib > 388K -> 296K images/jdk/lib/liblcms.dylib > 164K -> 128K images/jdk/lib/libzip.dylib > > > and libjvm : > > 20M -> 18M images/jdk/lib/server/libjvm.dylib > 146M -> 137M images/jdk/lib/server/libjvm.dylib.dSYM Btw on Linux s390x it is the `linktime-gc` , but from what I see this can be disabled by configure if you don't like it https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/0bff5f3dbe69ab2a59db771af1020b04c0132954/make/autoconf/jdk-options.m4#L112 https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/0bff5f3dbe69ab2a59db771af1020b04c0132954/make/autoconf/flags-ldflags.m4#L55 ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28319#issuecomment-3553211601
